A liquid coolant leak caused thermal runaway in battery cells which started a fire at the 300MW/450MWh Victorian Big Battery in Australia.

Industrial battery storage systems can lower electricity costs for the facilities they are installed at, but could also help manage the cost of power for all consumers.

Energy storage deployment in the US is growing at a phenomenal pace. But the appetite for storage is much greater than the ability to build, and getting grid interconnection rights is often the biggest hurdle.

Saft has completed another project in France for parent company TotalEnergies.

With a handful of leading regions deploying grid-scale storage at a faster rate than ever, what sort of impact are these additions having so far on the problems they are intended to solve?

Peaker plant in Queensland which would have relied on 1,000MW of gas generation will instead combine turbines and batteries.

The German energy storage market continued to be dominated by the residential segment in 2021 although utility-scale battery revenues grew by nearly six times year-on-year, according to new figures from the national storage association.

New York Power Authority has started a process of adapting fossil fuel peaker plant sites to host battery storage which could replace them. 

US national energy laboratory Berkeley Lab has released its top 10 findings from a research programme into renewable projects that pair generation with energy storage, so-called hybrid projects.

Battery storage companies raised US$17 billion in corporate funding in 2021 but have raised US$12.9 billion already this year.