Presenting the most-read news stories on Energy-Storage.news for the first half of 2023, including policy, technology and market developments shaping the industry.

Australian high voltage grid operator Transgrid will host a competitive solicitation for large-scale battery storage resources in areas of New South Wales facing increasing electricity demand.

EV and energy storage giant Tesla saw a slight quarter-on-quarter dip in energy storage deployments in Q2 to 3.7GWh, although annual growth was strong at 222%.

Scaling up net zero-enabling battery storage technologies will require financiers and investors to share risks with developers, such as those over supply chain.

Projects using novel, non-lithium battery technology have been progressed by organic flow battery firm CMBlu, liquid metal battery firm Ambri, and the NAS battery division of NGK Insulators.

Corporate funding into battery storage companies rebounded in Q2, but remains lower than in 2022 or 2021 so far.

New South Wales has granted planning approval for battery energy storage system projects in the Australian state’s Renewable Energy Zones.

Reducing exposure to merchant risk is key to making banks comfortable with lending money for hybrid renewables-plus-storage projects.

Serentica Renewables has signed an offtake deal for 1.5GWh of pumped hydro energy storage in two Indian states with Greenko Group.

Energy storage assets are versatile, profitable low carbon resources that need the right conditions and guidance to deliver value from the very start of operation, writes TWAICE.