Gotion High Tech has continued its push into Japan’s battery storage market, forming a partnership with investor Daiwa and renewable energy engineering and O&M firm CO2OS.

For many years now, Spain has been one of the leading European markets for solar PV but has yet to meet the same outcome for energy storage. Sungrow has high expectations for this to happen in the coming years.

There is a four-fold difference between how much energy storage the US Department of Energy (DOE) forecasted would be deployed by 2040 before the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and how much it now forecasts.

A battery storage ‘gigafactory’ in India will commence operation in October this year, with a planned ramp-up to 20GWh annual production capacity within three years.

Marubeni Corporation will build and own a large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido.   

The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) has approved a bid made by the DTE Electric Company to replace a coal-fired power plant in Michigan with battery storage.

Bulgaria’s Ministry of Energy has launched two tenders to add 1,425MW of renewable power generation to the grid and 350MW of battery energy storage system (BESS) projects.

Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has begun the process of tendering for 4,000MWh of grid-scale battery storage which will be supported by government Viability Gap Funding.

ZEN Energy has raised financing from US infrastructure investor Stonepeak towards a 111MW/290MWh battery storage project in South Australia.

Two years of volatility in the lithium-ion battery storage industry have seen prices tumble and a host of supply-chain complexities come to the fore.