Planning approval has been given for Waratah Super Battery in Australia to help fill gap in energy supply from a retiring coal power plant.

Microsoft’s project to equip a data centre with a ‘grid-interactive’ battery storage system shows “what is possible”.

Zenobē Energy has started construction of a 300MW/600MWh battery energy storage project in Blackhillock, Scotland.

Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) firm Nuvve will use its platform to manage 40MW of EV chargers and battery storage capacity in frequency regulation markets in Norway and Denmark.

The global need for grid-scale energy storage will rise rapidly in the coming years as the transition away from fossil fuels accelerates.

Australia has an “urgent need” for long-duration energy storage, along with new generation resources and transmission infrastructure.

Grid operators from across Europe believe energy storage is a vital flexibility resource that should be incentivised.

Suncor’s plan to recover vanadium from coke-fired boilers will receive CA$7 million (US$5.2 million) government funding.

Recommendations for how the US can double its lithium battery revenues have been published by Department of Energy’s Li-Bridge partnership.

The ‘hype cycle’ around long duration energy storage (LDES) is coming to an end and 2023 will be the year when companies must prove their technology can live up to its promises.