Australia’s budget includes nearly AU$25 billion for clean energy to ease cost of living pressures as well as help fight climate change.

The first utility-scale battery project in Tonga officially opened today at an event attended by the South Pacific Kingdom’s prime minister.

Australia is developing a National Critical Minerals Strategy, including materials for batteries and other clean energy technologies.

ARENA funding will support Hydrostor’s advanced compressed air energy storage (A-CAES) project in New South Wales.

The Senate of Chile has unanimously passed major legislation which will incentivise the deployment of energy storage and electric vehicle (EV) technology.

UK government initiative will make $211 million (US$235 million) available over the next three years.

US government grants worth US$2.8 billion to support domestic manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and the grid announced.

Dominion Energy has taken another small step towards Virginia’s energy transition, acquiring a 15.7MW battery storage project in development.

Australia’s government has put its support behind two major transmission projects which will increase the utilisation of renewable energy.

Canadian Solar and Axium Infrastructure have begun operation of the Crimson Energy Storage large-scale battery system in California.