In the first half of this year, energy storage companies raised almost as much corporate funding as in the whole of 2021.

Hero Future Energies has won a tender to construct grid-scale battery storage in the Indian state of Kerala.

The UK will have 50GW-plus of energy storage installed by 2050 in a best case scenario attainment of net zero, according to grid operator National Grid’s Future Energy Scenarios report.

Japanese financial services group Orix and regional utility company Kansai Electric building large-scale battery storage system.

Brookfield Renewable has proposed a 644MWh battery storage system to compete in the Ontario grid operator’s RfP.

Battery storage capacity in the US more than tripled to 4,631GW in 2021 and increasingly broadened out of ancillary services, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).

India is on the “cusp of a potential energy storage revolution,” according to authors of a new report on tenders launched in the country.

The number of people in the US working in battery storage continued to grow in 2021, adding nearly 3,000 jobs from the previous year.

Some anticipated lithium-ion battery gigafactory projects in Europe are quietly revising their plans and may not open at all, according to the head of energy storage for research and consulting company Delta-EE.

As the role of coal declines and ends in Australia’s NEM, huge growth in dispatchable energy storage capacity will be needed in the mix.