Microsoft will be the latest big tech player to use battery storage at data centres which will provide grid flexibility services.

South African energy company Kibo Energy will procure two vanadium redox flow battery system pilot projects from CellCube, the first step in a larger rollout.

Newly announced funding support from ARENA is enabling the expansion of a planned large-scale battery project in New South Wales.

Volkswagen has started construction of its 40GWh battery cell gigafactory in Salzgitter, Germany, and the company plans to dedicate capacity to grid-scale energy storage in future.

News in brief from around the world in energy storage.

Quinbrook developing A$2.5 billion ‘Supernode’ site in Queensland for storing energy and data that would include 2,000MWh of battery storage.

KULR Technology Group, a developer of battery safety and thermal management technologies, is buying 75MWh of batteries from a subsidiary of Taiwan Cement Corporation (TCC).

Mercedes-Benz is supplying second-life batteries for Canadian startup Moment Energy’s energy storage solution (ESS), the automotive player’s second such deal in three months.

Enervenue has already got 5GWh of customer orders for its metal-hydrogen battery for stationary storage.

Update 7 July 2022: Eos Energy Enterprises confirmed that the additional orders from Bridgelink will be for Texas projects.