Grid-scale battery storage will be added in the Caribbean by Honeywell in the US Virgin Islands and Leclanché in St Kitts & Nevis.

California-based Element Energy has raised US$111 million of equity and debt for its proprietary battery management system (BMS) for first and second life battery storage.

Second life energy storage firm Stabl has raised €15 million, while its CEO told Energy-Storage.news the second life market will “struggle with the deteriorating performance of their systems in the coming years”.

A roundup of news in brief from around the world in energy storage, with Honeywell, Wärtsilä and Iberdrola.

Dr Kai-Philipp Kairies of ACCURE on how advanced battery analytics can help overcome typical technical commissioning challenges.

Tesvolt’s new collaboration with Denios aims to “offer extremely safe energy storage systems to customers with special safety requirements”.

Norwegian ‘smart battery’ firm Hagal and China-based lithium-ion battery manufacturer Cospowers Technology have partnered to offer an energy storage solution.

Gigawatt-hours of used EV batteries are now hitting the market, and California-based Element Energy claims it has the ideal BMS platform to scale second life energy storage technology.

Indonesia Battery Corporation exploring cell manufacturing and battery storage integration with engineering company Citaglobal.

California-based firm Element Energy has raised a US$28 million Series B to accelerate its proprietary BMS-enhanced second life energy storage solution, with 2.5GWh of modules secured already.