During first China-Arab States Summit, Sungrow signed battery storage supply agreement for Saudi Arabia’s new ‘smart city’ megadevelopment.

Another serving of news in brief from around the world in energy storage.

The hydropower subsidiary of General Electric’s renewables business has installed first pair of 300MW turbines at pumped hydro site in China.

Greenko has won a technology agnostic tender hosted by NTPC Renewable Energy in India to provide long-duration energy storage.

Enough money invested in long-duration energy storage technologies and projects over the past three years to result in 57GW of deployments.

Lithium-ion battery pack prices have gone up 7% in 2022, marking the first price rise since BloombergNEF began its surveys in 2010.

United Airlines has become an investor in Natron Energy as the world’s first sodium-ion gigafactory is opened in China.

Vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) firm Invinity Energy Systems has secured a 15MWh order from industrial technology company Everdura in Taiwan, its largest to date.

Subsidiary of Indian state-owned power company NTPC has invited bids to deploy battery storage at renewable energy park in Gujarat.

A UK company has received funding to explore potential sites in India for demonstration of its proprietary gravity energy storage technology.