Harmony Energy has secured a £60 million debt facility from major UK retail and commercial banking group NatWest.

Crossboundary Energy Access, an investment platform which is project financing solar-powered mini-grid projects in rural Africa, has secured US$50 million funding.

The story behind EStor-Lux, Belgium’s biggest BESS to date.

Zenobē has begun construction of its 50MW/100MWh battery storage asset in Scotland.

Zinc battery storage company Eos Energy Enterprises has secured a US$200 million investment commitment.

Debt and equity financing worth US$1.9 billion has been closed for one of the US’ largest solar-plus-storage power plants to date.

Battery storage companies raised US$17 billion in corporate funding in 2021 but have raised US$12.9 billion already this year. 

Tesla’s Megapack as well as the company’s solar PV will power a Bitcoin mining facility in a proof of concept (POC) project in the US.

e-Zinc, which claims its zinc metal-based battery technology could provide low-cost, long-duration energy storage has raised US$25 million. 

News in brief from around the world in energy storage, this time with a distinctly UK flavour.