Some big names have announced steps forward in their residential battery offerings.

Anthony Price summarises what took place at this year’s International Flow Batteries Forum Summer Conference in Brussels, Belgium.

A real estate and infrastructure investment arm of BlackRock has committed to investing US$700 million into Akaysha Energy’s pipeline.

Vistra Energy will have more than 1,213MW of battery storage in operation in its portfolio by 2026, the US power generation company has claimed.

When partnered with artificial intelligence (AI), the next generation of battery energy storage systems (BESS) will give rise to radical new opportunities.

Battery storage is the most obvious medium-term solution to help stabilise the grid and act as a catalyst to enable renewable energy.

Microsoft will be the latest big tech player to use battery storage at data centres which will provide grid flexibility services.

Queensland’s state government has identified batteries as the fastest way to add energy storage to the electricity network.

Carbon-free energy deals signed by Google and a California community energy group could be a widely replicable model.

NextEra Energy decarbonisation strategy includes eliminating all scope 1 and 2 emissions from its operations by 2045 without carbon offsets.