ZincFive, a US company developing nickel-zinc battery technology for applications including data centre UPS has closed a Series D round.

Engineering firm KBR will work with Shell to design an energy storage facility combining green hydrogen and battery storage at a wind farm off the coast of the Netherlands, the first of two similar pieces of news.

Quidnet, developing a proprietary mechanical energy storage technology, will receive funding from US DOE’s ARPA-E.

EnergyAustralia has filed planning applications for four-hour duration large-scale lithium BESS in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley.

Last coal-fired power station in New Jersey demolished, with facility’s owner committing to deploying energy storage at the site.

Renewable energy firm Acciona Energia has launched a 16-chargepoint vehicle-to-grid (V2G) network in the Balearic Islands, the first in Spain.

United Airlines has become an investor in Natron Energy as the world’s first sodium-ion gigafactory is opened in China.

National Grid Renewables has commenced operations at its Noble solar-plus-storage project in Denton County, Texas.

Approval granted in Australia for the first battery storage project to share grid connection point with an existing generation asset in National Electricity Market.

A 49MW battery storage system has just been commissioned at a floating diesel power plant in Mindanao, Philippines.