The Japanese government has published the list of battery aggregators that successfully applied to a scheme to promote energy storage systems.

Paper product company Arctic Paper has tied up with developer S.E.R to deploy BESS projects for ancillary services totalling 24MW at two of its factories in Sweden, with plans to do something similar in Poland.

Much more needs to be done to ensure that European countries create the right investment environment for flexibility resources in the electricity system, writes Eaton’s Siobahn Meikle.

US vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology company Nuvve has entered a strategic partnership with Chinese battery and energy storage solutions manufacturer Guangzhou Great Power.

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.

Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks with Michael Phelan, CEO of energy management solutions provider GridBeyond, following €52 million Series C funding round.

Virtual power plants (VPPs) in California using technologies including home batteries and demand response (DR) could provide 7.5GW of capacity in ten years’ time, 15% of peak demand, analysis from consultancy the Brattle Group shows.

The energy regulator in France has ordered a reopening of a postponed auction for secondary reserve/aFRR services, citing an increase in the number of BESS certified to provide it.

The versatility of battery storage to provide a broad range of services makes them “particularly valuable” to virtual power plants (VPPs), according to a senior advisor to the US Department of Energy (DOE).

Dr Alastair Martin of Flexitricity sheds light on negative energy pricing and the opportunity it represents for batteries.