Renewable energy company Statkraft participated in what it says was the largest dispatch of energy from battery storage to the Ireland grid to-date, on July 14th.

The German battery storage-integrated EV charging space had a busy July, with startup Numbat raising €10m-plus in capital and Volkswagen and JOLT Energy opening charging parks.

Another edition of our news in brief from the energy storage industry focusing on the bustling UK market.

Stakeholders have a few days left to take part in a survey on lithium-ion based battery storage system safety.

E.ON spinout Uniper Energy Storage has received €2.75 million in EU grant funding towards a project to store hydrogen at scale in a salt cavern in Northern Germany.

Innergex has completed a BESS project in France, using a solution designed by a subsidiary of utility Hydro-Québec.

State-owned power company PGE Group has obtained regulatory approval to build a 200MW/820MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Poland.

In the first half of this year, energy storage companies raised almost as much corporate funding as in the whole of 2021.

After falling by more than two-thirds in quarter one 2022, energy storage order intake increased 19% in quarter two for marine and energy solutions company Wärtsilä.

Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) and UK developer Harmony Energy have begun construction of their 198MWh Tesla battery project in England.