Long-duration energy storage was firmly on the agenda and among the talking points of attendees at Energy Storage Summit EU in London.

India’s government has added an Energy Storage Obligation alongside its Renewable Purchase Obligation for the first time.

The Long Duration Energy Storage Council, the organisation formed last year to push for the global deployment of eight-hour-plus duration storage technologies, has elected its first board of directors.

We hear from two US companies which are stakeholders in both the present and future of energy storage, in this fourth and final instalment of our interview series looking back at 2021 and ahead to this year and beyond.

For this third instalment of our look back at 2021, we’ve something of a mixture of views from around the industry.

In this episode of the Solar Media Podcast, we hear the verdict directly from those who were there at COP26.

We have the technological tools to decarbonise, but can we do so at pace and scale? It depends on the politics, says James Basden, co-founder and director of Zenobe Energy.

Efforts by the Chilean government and US-headquartered energy infrastructure company AES Corporation will boost the Latin American country’s installed base of battery storage. 

A US$57.67 million loan towards the development cost of large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects will be made to South Africa’s public electricity utility Eskom by the African Development Bank. 

Energy storage technologies have largely been ignored in discussions at and around COP26 climate talks. That’s not good enough, argues Amit Gudka of Field.