United Airlines has become an investor in Natron Energy as the world’s first sodium-ion gigafactory is opened in China.

UK government Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has provided US$39.67 million to five energy storage projects.

US$16.6 million funding has been committed for five long-duration energy storage (LDES) projects in New York by the US state’s government.

Enervenue has already got 5GWh of customer orders for its metal-hydrogen battery for stationary storage.

e-Zinc, which claims its zinc metal-based battery technology could provide low-cost, long-duration energy storage has raised US$25 million. 

An eight-hour duration Lockheed Martin flow battery energy storage system will be deployed at a 102.5MW solar PV project in Canada.

Long-duration energy storage has a crucial role to play in decarbonising the global energy system sufficiently to avoid catastrophic climate change as long as its value can be unlocked. 

Testing and accreditation group DNV has added new capabilities to assess thermal runaway behaviour in battery cells to the testing laboratory it manages in Rochester, New York.

Nickel-hydrogen batteries have been used in space for several years, but a California company adapting the technology for storing energy here on earth has raised US$100 million in a Series A funding round. 

Form Energy has closed its Series D financing round, with investors including steel company ArcelorMittal putting US$240 million into the Boston-headquartered iron-air battery startup.