The government of Bangladesh and potential investors into energy storage in the South Asian country were handed a European Union-funded roadmap for the technology’s development last week.

Japanese conglomerate Itochu is launching its first grid-scale BESS project with utility Osaka Gas and finance group Tokyo Century Leasing.

Eolian has taken the amount of financing it has raised in just three years since founding to more than a billion-and-a-half-dollars.

Australian Vanadium, targeting vertically integrated involvement in the flow battery market, has received the first payment from a government grant to support its manufacturing plans.

The US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has given the green light for construction to begin on a second large-scale battery storage system at Desert Sunlight.

Dr Rahul Walawalkar, founder & president of IESA, gives us an exclusive recap from India Energy Storage Week.

The Q2 2023 edition of our journal, PV Tech Power, is now available to download, including ‘Storage & Smart Power’ by Energy-Storage.news.

Europe’s biggest battery storage system earned £2.3 million (US$2.85 million) revenues in Q1 2023.

Some 710MW of battery storage came online in the US in the first three months of the year, of which around 70% was in the ERCOT, Texas market, S&P Global said.

Justin Rangooni, executive director of trade association Energy Storage Canada (ESC) takes us through some of the key developments to date.