Research firm Wood Mackenzie has downgraded its forecasts for US demand for energy storage in 2022 and 2023 by around one-third, in its most recent global outlook report.

South Africa’s primary electricity supplier Eskom has announced details of forthcoming major battery storage deployments.

Startup Spearmint Energy has become the latest developer to acquire a large-scale battery storage project in Texas.

Some 5GWh of utility-scale battery energy storage was deployed in the first half of 2022, up one third while wind and solar fell 50-70%, according to American Clean Power (ACP).

Stakeholders have a few days left to take part in a survey on lithium-ion based battery storage system safety.

India’s government has added an Energy Storage Obligation alongside its Renewable Purchase Obligation for the first time.

Innergex has completed a BESS project in France, using a solution designed by a subsidiary of utility Hydro-Québec.

Battery storage deployments on the California ISO (CAISO) grid slowed in the lead-up to the peak summer season, with no new battery energy storage connected in May and only 65MW added in June.

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.