The Britishvolt saga and any potential for a lithium-ion gigafactory at the Northumberland, UK site looks to be over after US private equity firm Blackstone acquired it to set up a data centre.

A Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners portfolio company will shortly begin construction on a 250MW/500MWh battery storage system in Queensland, Australia.

Meta has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with US utility Salt River Project (SRP) and Danish energy company Ørsted in Arizona.

Falling cryptocurrency prices have led to a crypto mine developer to propose a battery storage facility in the city of Corpus Christi, Texas.

Four battery energy storage system (BESS) units at a Microsoft data centre in Sweden from Saft have entered operation, while ABB has added ZincFive as a technology supplier for its own UPS solutions.

Startup ZincFive, maker of a novel nickel-zinc battery for stationary storage applications, has brought its total investment raised since founding seven years ago to more than US$200 million.

German telecommunications firm Deutsche Telekom has place its second battery storage order this year, for 60MWh of systems from Intilion.

Microsoft’s project to equip a data centre with a ‘grid-interactive’ battery storage system shows “what is possible”.

ZincFive, a US company developing nickel-zinc battery technology for applications including data centre UPS has closed a Series D round.

Ohio Power Siting Board has given approval to a large-scale standalone battery energy storage system (BESS) project for the first time.