We talk to Elli Group, the EV infrastructure and utility arm of automotive OEM Volkswagen, about its new second life energy storage and energy trading ventures.

Alfen has reported a 526% year-on-year increase in half-year revenues for its battery energy storage business segment.

Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) firm Nuvve will use its platform to manage 40MW of EV chargers and battery storage capacity in frequency regulation markets in Norway and Denmark.

Wärtsilä Energy has signed additional contract with EDF Renewables UK for 50MW/100MWh lithium-ion energy storage facility in England.

GM partnering with one of California’s main investor-owned utilities to explore vehicle-to-grid and vehicle-to-home integration.

The business case for developers to use large batteries at EV charging stations instead of upgrading electricity networks in the UK is now harder to make after recent changes in regulations.

Home energy storage system provider NeoVolta will deploy its solution at up to 1,000 EOS Linx EV charging stations across the US.

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

The German battery storage-integrated EV charging space had a busy July, with startup Numbat raising €10m-plus in capital and Volkswagen and JOLT Energy opening charging parks.

Energy Superhub Oxford, a project with a lithium-ion-vanadium hybrid battery energy storage system (BESS) totalling 55MW, has officially launched.