Lithium-ion battery recycler Li-Cycle has opened its third recycling facility, in Arizona.

Urban Electric Power has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with developer Pine Gate Renewables to supply the latter up to 4,550MWh of its zinc batteries over the next five years.

Construction has begun on a major hybrid renewable energy and storage plant in Andhra Pradesh, India.

Duke Energy’s carbon reduction plan for its Carolina businesses includes proposals for a “significant growth” in energy storage deployments.

Cellcube has signed a five-year agreement with an energy asset developer to deploy 1GW-plus of its vanadium redox flow batteries (VFRBs) in Southern Africa, but CEO Alexander Schoenfeldt tells Energy-Storage.news the company’s supply chain has a long way to go before getting to that kind of number.

Commercial operations have begun at the Hydrovolt battery recycling plant in Norway, a joint venture (JV) between Norwegian materials processing company Hydro and Sweden-headquartered lithium battery manufacturing startup Northvolt.

Battery energy storage system (BESS) capacity in Italy reached 587MW/1,227MWh in the first three months of 2022, of which 977MWh is distributed energy storage, according to the national renewables association, ANIE Rinnovabili.

Intersolar Europe event saw a number of energy storage-related announcements from Chinese solar PV industry players.

Global system integrator Fluence increased its revenues for the first three months of 2022, its second quarter, 249% to US$343 million.

Iron flow battery company ESS Inc continues to await recognition of revenues, but has “strong confidence” in its trajectory towards profitability.