The administrators appointed to handle the affairs of Australian flow battery manufacturer Redflow have already received interest from prospective buyers and investors.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) is funding trial deployments of two different non-lithium battery technologies at microgrids in Western Australia.

The past few days have seen various announcements across the lithium-ion battery production value chain in Europe, Australia and the US.

Flow batteries have so far, failed to live up to the disruptive potential they promise, a new report says, but authors Alex Eller and William Tokash at Navigant Research have identified 12 leading vendors in the nascent field, based on metrics of strategy and execution.