US lawmakers have accused lithium-ion battery OEMs CATL and Gotion High-Tech of having supply chain connections to forced labour and Uyghur oppression in China – a claim the firms adamantly deny – and called on an immediate block on shipments of their products.

Editor Andy Colthorpe speaks with Yann Brandt, chief commercial officer at FlexGen, a solar industry veteran who saw the rising potential of the energy storage industry and jumped on board.

Rachel Rundle of Eku Energy speaks to Energy-Storage.news Premium about the developer’s growing pipeline of battery projects in Australia.

Chile has passed new regulations around capacity market payments to energy storage, coinciding with a major project announcement from CJR and Sungrow.

Utility Octopus Energy will pay Gresham House Energy Storage Fund (GRID) a fixed fee to use half of its UK BESS portfolio, at a price which it said is ‘above the current merchant revenue stack’.

The US will provide US$85 million in foreign aid to the Republic of Moldova for battery energy storage system (BESS) projects as well as high voltage transmission line upgrades, secretary of state Anthony Blinken said last week (29 May).

Energy Vault has entered into an exclusive partnership with architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) to work on projects using its gravity energy storage technology.

Editor Andy Colthorpe speaks with Long Duration Energy Storage Council director of markets and technology Gabriel Murtagh.

China’s National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration have issued new rules for the power market.