Finland and California-based second life energy storage firms Cactos and Smartville Inc have raised nearly US$10 million to commercialise systems using repurposed Tesla EV batteries – we talk to both company founders.

Rio Tinto has announced the latest steps in its plan to deploy 1GW of renewable energy for its operations in Pilbara, Australia.

Turkish company Kontrolmatik Technologies expects over US$900 million in incentives from the Inflation Reduction Act to 2032 for its US gigafactory, with Powin one of its first offtakers.

The Philippines Department of Energy (DOE) and regulators are considering changing rules governing ownership of grid-connected energy storage systems.

Subsidiary of Indian state-owned power company NTPC has invited bids to deploy battery storage at renewable energy park in Gujarat.

Utility Colbún has inaugurated a solar-plus-storage project with a 32MWh battery energy storage system in the Atacama region, the first of an 800MW deployment target.

A UK company has received funding to explore potential sites in India for demonstration of its proprietary gravity energy storage technology.

Bushveld Minerals is restructuring its investment in vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) firm CellCube, increasing it slightly to 27.6%, as part of its own energy storage business carve-out.

It’s time the battery storage industry adopted an approach to servicing like the model widely adopted by the global solar PV industry.

ACWA Power and Indonesian state power company will investigate energy storage and green hydrogen projects in the Southeast Asian country.