A new grid-scale battery storage development platform has launched in Australia with Oliver Yates, former CEO of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), as its chairman.  

Energy-Storage.news Premium hears how LFP import duties could encourage domestic supply chains to help meet demand for BESS in Turkey.

Quantumscape is ‘not revealing a commercialisation roadmap for non-automotive applications’ for its solid state battery, it told Energy-Storage.news, while 24M Technologies gave us an update on its latest ‘SemiSolid’ battery product.

The government of Queensland, Australia, will invest in 48MW/96MWh of distributed battery storage and trial the use of flow batteries to integrate rooftop PV generation into local networks.

As India’s Union government prepares the fiscal year 2024-2025 budget for its unveiling, trade group India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA) has offered some recommendations to support the technology.

This Friday Briefing looks at some big new projects already announced this year and the new BloombergNEF Tier-1 BESS list.

The government of Turkey, currently processing applications for large-scale energy storage facilities at renewable energy plants, will raise import duties for lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery products.

BloombergNEF has launched its Energy Storage Tier 1 list of providers, noting growth in new players from the China market.

Lithium-ion manufacturer Hithium will supply 5GWh of LFP battery cells to system integrator Powin over a three year period.

An official opening took place this morning for the new vanadium flow battery electrolyte factory in Western Australia build by Australian Vanadium (AVL).