UK-based Connected Energy has raised £15 million (US$18.4 million) from five new investors to help scale up its second life-based battery energy storage system (BESS) solution.

The government of Victoria, Australia, has opened a round of funding for ‘neighbourhood-scale’ battery storage.

News in brief from around the world in energy storage.

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

NextEra Energy decarbonisation strategy includes eliminating all scope 1 and 2 emissions from its operations by 2045 without carbon offsets.

Novel project in development in Australia combining CSP, molten silicon thermal storage, solar PV and grid-scale BESS appears to be revived.

Hitachi Energy will power the US’ first-ever primary vanadium source entirely from renewable energy in a partnership with Nevada Vanadium.

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

Mining giant Rio Tinto has invested US$10 million in battery materials company Nano One, a few weeks after Nano One acquired the lithium iron phosphate cathode business of Johnson Matthey.

Power and automation technology company ABB will lead a turnkey project for a shore-to-ship power solution in Toulon, south France, using a 2.35MW/4.7MWh lithium-ion battery.