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Ambri's liquid metal batteries are housed in stainless steel containers. Image: Ambri.

Microsoft data centre using Ambri’s liquid metal battery in UPS

September 16, 2022
Ambri system commissioned at Microsoft data centre reduces the use of fossil fuels and enables ancillary service market participation.
A Microsoft data centre in Ireland (pictured) is serving as a test bed for adding lithium-ion battery storage to UPS equipment, with Google also undertaking a similar project in Belgium. Image: Microsoft.

Microsoft data centre tries out ‘grid-interactive UPS’ battery storage

July 11, 2022
Microsoft will be the latest big tech player to use battery storage at data centres which will provide grid flexibility services.
Global energy storage technology provider and system integrator Fluence opening a technology centre in Bangalore, India, in mid-2022. Image: Fluence.

ROUNDUP: Fluence’s India tech centre, Redflow launches Gen3 flow battery, Zinc backup at Wyoming data centre

July 8, 2022
News in brief from around the world in energy storage.
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Quinbrook plans ‘Supernode’ energy & data hub in Australia with 2GWh battery storage

July 8, 2022
Quinbrook developing A$2.5 billion ‘Supernode’ site in Queensland for storing energy and data that would include 2,000MWh of battery storage.
Battery storage and solar array at Google's Saint-Ghislain data centre complex in Belgium. Image: Google / Centrica Business Solutions.

Google’s 24/7 carbon-free energy deal for its California offices ‘could be replicable model’

June 23, 2022
Carbon-free energy deals signed by Google and a California community energy group could be a widely replicable model.
urban electric power zinc batteries

Urban Electric Power and Pine Gate sign five-year MOU for 4.5GWh of zinc batteries

May 18, 2022
Urban Electric Power has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with developer Pine Gate Renewables to supply the latter up to 4,550MWh of its zinc batteries over the next five years.
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Fluence grows Q2 revenues 250% to US$343 million

May 16, 2022
Global system integrator Fluence increased its revenues for the first three months of 2022, its second quarter, 249% to US$343 million.
Interior of AES' Alamitos 400MWh BESS, California. Image: AES.

Amazon signs deals for California solar and battery storage with AES

May 9, 2022
Amazon has signed cross-portfolio power purchase agreement (PPA) deals with AES Corporation for California clean energy resources.
polarium opens South Africa factory

Unicorn valuation for Swedish energy storage solutions provider after US$100 million investment

May 3, 2022
Polarium, a Swedish manufacturer of lithium-ion based battery energy storage systems (BESS) technology, has been valued at over a billion dollars.
Battery storage and solar array at Google's Saint-Ghislain data centre complex in Belgium. Image: Google / Centrica Business Solutions.

Google ‘excited’ for potential of battery-based technologies at data centres

April 21, 2022
Google hails project to retrofit data centre with battery storage as a step towards rolling out similar solutions across global fleet.

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