Manz AG, manufacturing equipment supplier, has signed off on a €20 million (US$21.83 million) deal with “high performance” battery maker AKASOL for planned ‘gigafactories’ in Germany and in the US.

Investors are queuing “all the way down the street” but many require the first projects to be built before committing, Gridserve’s chief investment officer Mark Henderson has said.

Battery storage assets in the UK successfully landed capacity agreements in last week’s T-3 Capacity Market auction by listing as demand side response (DSR) assets.

An energy storage system made up of ‘second life’ batteries previously used in Renault’s electric vehicle (EV) has been deployed for Umicore, a multinational materials technology company headquartered in Belgium.

Engineering firm Eaton and storage company Enico launch a scalable, modular and fully integrated containerised energy storage solution.

EU decision-makers have recognised the key role energy storage can play, integrating it into the EU’s Clean Energy Package (CEP) in some critically important ways. Valeska Gottke at BVES looks at how Germany’s industry is working towards these same goals.

News in brief from around the world in energy storage.

Germany-headquartered renewable energy generation company Innogy will construct its first battery storage facility in Ireland.

There could be 10 guiding principles for integrating energy storage as a vital “pillar” of the energy transition.

French renewables company Voltalia has gained planning permission for a 40MW solar farm with battery storage in Dorset, England.