Ground operations for the aviation and space exploration sectors will be powered with the help of non-lithium battery technologies in Netherlands and Japan.

Noon Energy, developer of a novel carbon-oxygen battery for long-duration storage, has raised US$28 million in a Series A funding round.

Longroad Energy has achieved financial close on Arizona project which will pair 285MWdc of solar PV with 215MW/860MWh battery storage.

CATL is working with ‘safety science’ specialist UL Solutions on the safer deployment of batteries for stationary storage and transport applications.

High-voltage grid and market operator ISO New England has requested separate classification of energy storage as a transmission asset.

Corporate funding of energy storage companies exceeded US$26 billion worldwide in 2022, a 55% jump from 2021’s total US$17 billion.

Large-scale battery storage systems will be used to increase the efficiency of natural gas peaker plants in California.

The vanadium flow battery sector received a boost this week with news of a rental partnership between Invinity and Dawsongroup plc, a new electrolyte plant in Germany and a whitepaper around the technology’s environmental impact.

The government of Queensland seeks input on its battery industry strategy, while an engineering provider has been appointed for a large-scale battery gigafactory in Victoria.

A handful of companies are trying to get in early and design and deploy ‘second life’ energy storage units using EV batteries ahead of an expected boom in supply in the second half of the 2020s.