It is “unacceptable” for a rural electricity supplier to use solar to prevent load-shedding, but batteries or other grid-independent electricity sources could be used, Eskom said.

Gravitricity has partnered with firms in the US and Germany to deploy its gravity energy storage solution while Energy Vault has provided an update on its China project.

Utility Xcel Energy has launched a ‘no money down’ resiliency offering for commercial and industrial (C&I) customers in Minnesota.

Vertically integrated energy storage company Kore Power will replace the batteries in a battery energy storage system (BESS) originally turned online with BYD batteries in 2015.

Manufacturers should make bi-directional charging possible to allow batteries to be used as stationary energy storage, according to Senator.

The Australian government is funding grid inertia measurement trial at the Victorian Big Battery, aiming to develop real-time, accurate assessments of the status of the network.

US battery storage developer and long-term management firm Spearmint Energy is “a little bit distrustful” of the “black box” of optimisation, its head of trading told Energy-Storage.news.

CATL has committed to a carbon neutrality plan, identifying five ‘key links’ in its value chain to implement emissions reduction measures.

Work is set to begin “within weeks” on a BESS project at the site of a coal power plant in New South Wales, Australia.

DOE has opened a funding opportunity for work to address gaps or weaknesses in manufacturing of solid-state and flow battery technologies.