Masdar has announced preferred suppliers and contractors for its 5.2GW solar PV and 19GWh battery storage project in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE).

This edition of news in brief focuses on energy storage technologies that are emerging or on the path to commercialisation.

Chinese battery manufacturer Rept Battero has announced plans to develop an 8GWh gigafactory in Indonesia specialising in lithium-ion cells for battery energy storage systems (BESS).

A new study from Stanford says that sodium-ion batteries will need more breakthroughs in order to compete with lithium-ion (Li-ion).

Our Year in Review Q&A series continues as we speak with Andrew Gilligan, senior director for commercial strategy at Fluence.

Battery recycling firm Livium, via its wholly owned subsidiary, Envirostream Australia, has partnered with Chinese battery manufacturer Hithium Energy to recycle lithium-ion batteries from Lightsource bp’s Woolooga solar-plus-storage site in Queensland.

Energy Storage Award 2024 winner, Semih Oztreves, head of network infrastructure at  BESS developer-investor Zenobē Energy, takes part in our annual Q&A series.

Rho Motion’s head of research Iola Hughes analyses some of the trends shaping the battery storage supply chain as market growth accelerates worldwide.

Jaehong Park, CEO of LG Energy Solution Vertech takes part in the first of our annual series of industry Q&A articles reflecting on the year just gone and looking to the year ahead.

The rhetoric around new and increased trade barriers between the US and China affecting batteries, battery materials and BESS has ramped up in the past few weeks, and we hear from a lawyer and a political analyst.