Data centres require energy storage solutions that meet very specific needs, writes Tod Higinbotham, COO of ZincFive.

Kelcy Pegler, CEO at US energy storage system integrator FlexGen, takes part in our Year in Review Q&A series.

Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has secured AU$722 million (US$452 million) in debt financing for the first two stages of its ‘Supernode’ energy storage project in Queensland, Australia.

The energy storage team at EPC firm Burns & McDonnell offers its take on the year just gone and looks ahead to 2025.

Solutions provider nVent on the industry’s increasing demand for energy storage systems with smarter design and technology to deliver a smaller footprint.

Real estate developer ERNE Gruppe and architecture firm FlexBase are hoping to start construction on a data centre project in Switzerland next year, which will include a ‘non-flammable and non-explosive’ 500MW energy storage unit.

Battery energy storage system (BESS) solutions provider GE Vernova has been selected to deliver the BESS for Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners’ 250MW/1,000 MWh energy storage project in Queensland, Australia.

Peak Energy, a startup claiming to be the ‘first American venture to advance globally proven sodium-ion battery systems,’ has raised US$55 million in a Series A funding round.

The market for deploying energy storage at data centres saw announcements this week from Digital Realty and Enel X in Ireland and Exowatt in the US.

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