Masdar has signed a joint development agreement (JDA) with the Uzbekistan government to develop more than 2GW of solar and wind projects.

European lithium-ion gigafactory firm Northvolt has completed construction of its energy storage system (ESS) production facility in Poland and expects to start production by the end of 2023.

Samantha McGahan of Australian Vanadium on the electrolyte, which is the single most important material for making vanadium flow batteries.

Japan’s Marubeni Corporation working with Vietnamese battery and energy-as-a-service provider VinES to develop energy storage facilities.

Canadian Solar shipped just 18MWh of energy storage in the first three months of the year, while growing its contracted revenues for the segment to US$1.3 billion.

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

Oneida, which will mix long-term contracted revenues with merchant risk exposure in Ontario, Canada, has reached financial close.

System integrator Energy SpA and its vertically integrated peer Pylon Technologies have formed a joint venture (JV) to set up a gigafactory in Italy producing batteries for energy storage.

Global battery energy storage system (BESS) integrator Powin has selected South Korea-based ACE Engineering as a contract manufacturer for a portion of its Waratah Super Battery in New South Wales, Australia.

The energy storage arm of PV module giant Canadian Solar will supply 363MWh of its battery energy storage systems (BESS) to developer Aypa Power for a project in Texas.