Would-be battery manufacturers that could serve the US energy storage industry with domestically made cells are facing a “perfect storm,” Energy-Storage.news has heard.
Trina Storage’s new 10MWh battery storage product is claimed by the company to be the first in the US to include full cell-to-AC system integration from a single vendor.
DNV’s Jason Goodhand tells Energy-Storage.news Premium about the insights learned from testing dozens of cells for this year’s Battery Scorecard report.
The EU is ‘stepping up its game on battery gigafactories’, European Commission executive VP Maroš Šefčovič said at the Giga Europe conference today (12 March).
We caught up with Birger Steen, CEO of lithium-ion gigafactory company Freyr Battery, about its recent decision to minimise European investments in light of the Inflation Reduction Act, discussing a potential policy response and its approach to ESS and using conventional technologies.
Whatever technology or strategy announcements come from Tesla’s Battery Day, speculation that the company will reduce purchases of battery cells from partners as a consequence is incorrect, CEO Elon Musk has said.
The company behind what looks set to be Norway’s first gigawatt-scale manufacturing facility for lithium-ion battery cells has secured pre-construction financing of NOK130 million (US$13.85 million) which it said will “enable rapid development” of the plant.
Germany-headquartered battery manufacturer Varta will receive €300 million (US$338 million) of government funding to develop large format lithium-ion cells, which has been deemed a project of potentially strategic interest for Europe.
