One of the world’s biggest vanadium redox flow battery energy storage systems has come online on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.

EV batteries made by Mercedes-Benz will be given a new lease of life in stationary energy storage systems (ESS). 

Fluence has formed a partnership with TECO Group to pursue energy storage opportunities in Taiwan’s growing market.

News in brief from around the world in energy storage, this time with a distinctly UK flavour.

Microinverter supplier Enphase Energy has been selected by Vermont, US, utility Green Mountain Power to supply its home battery system for a virtual power plant (VPP) programme.

EDF Renewables subsidiary Powerflex has partnered with Ontario utility Hydro One to develop distributed energy resource solutions in the Canadian province.

LS Energy Solutions has delivered the first units of its new all-in-one energy storage system (ESS) solution.

Getting grid interconnection rights for energy storage in the US is difficult.

The World Bank’s International Finance Corporation is taking part in a study to assess how technologies like solar-plus-storage hybrids can provide baseload power in the Philippines.

Enel X will participate in a pilot in Ontario aggregating behind-the-meter battery storage and demand response.