Microsoft will be the latest big tech player to use battery storage at data centres which will provide grid flexibility services.

News in brief from around the world in energy storage.

Enervenue has already got 5GWh of customer orders for its metal-hydrogen battery for stationary storage.

Construction has begun of a factory for long-duration flow batteries using iron and saltwater electrolyte in Queensland, Australia.

Update 7 July 2022: Eos Energy Enterprises confirmed that the additional orders from Bridgelink will be for Texas projects.

The government of Western Australia has begun a drive to deploy at least 1,000 renewable energy off-grid power systems.

LG will use an energy management system developed by Fractal EMS for commercial and industrial energy storage systems in the US market.

Ambri has received an order in South Africa for a 300MW energy storage system based on its proprietary liquid metal battery technology.

Inaccess, which has worked on some of world’s biggest battery projects, has been acquired by renewables software company Power Factors.

KORE Power will provide batteries for a 20MWh battery storage project under development between ABB and UK green energy supplier Ecotricity.