Automotive giant General Motors has launched a new division providing energy storage and energy management solutions.

FREYR Battery has signed a series of agreements that bring its plans for gigafactories in Europe and later the US closer to fruition.

A warranty covering 20,000 cycles has been launched by Enervenue, the US startup commercialising a nickel-hydrogen battery technology.

FlexGen signed a multi-year, 10GWh battery storage supply deal with CATL, the world’s biggest lithium-ion manufacturer, a couple of weeks ago.

Form Energy has raised US$450 million from investors including ArcellorMittal, bringing the startup’s total investment to US$800 million.

Zinc bromide battery startup Gelion has started up manufacturing operations in Australia which lean on existing production techniques for lead-acid batteries.

CellCube has formed an R&D partnership in Australia in anticipation of establishing a presence in the country’s long-duration energy storage market.

sonnen and Sunnova’s new business models aim to turn residential and distributed battery storage into key components of energy networks.

Sungrow, EVE Energy Storage and Saft were amongst the big names exhibiting new battery energy storage products at RE+ in California last week.

A flow battery supply deal will accelerate a California municipal utility’s decarbonisation while derisking that process.