UNSW receives AU$6.52 million to study how solar, wind and battery storage interact with grid protection systems as Australia transitions to renewables.

Iron-air battery company Ore Energy has raised US$43 million in a Series A funding round to commercialise its multi-day energy storage technology.

Thermal energy storage (TES) technology provider Antora Energy has closed a US$550 million Series C funding round to accelerate deployment of its thermal battery storage systems for industrial facilities and data centres in the US.

Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks with Ryan Hledik, Principal at the Brattle Group, and Lauren Nevitt, Senior Director of Public Policy at Sunrun, on the shaky future of California’s Demand Side Grid Support distributed storage programme.

Developer and operator EsVolta has secured a US$185 million senior secured credit facility for its US battery energy storage system (BESS) project pipeline.

Polarium, a Sweden-headquartered energy storage system manufacturer, has raised SEK562 million (US$48.3 million).

ACCURE has raised €7.2 million for its analytics solutions that can enable a “proactive approach to safety” in the battery storage industry.  

Kraftblock, a thermal energy storage startup based in Germany, and Australia’s MGA Thermal have secured funding to accelerate their technologies’ scale-up and commercialisation.

New company Allye Energy has raised £900k (US$1.1 million) to scale up production of its mobile battery energy storage system (BESS) using second life EV batteries.

NHOA is on track to achieve a targeted 10x growth in its business, but will require funds from its parent company to complete the task.