KEPCO, South Korea’s biggest electric utility, has welcomed the start of commercial operations at a portfolio of large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) assets.

Supply chain risk platform Infyos discusses its research into forced and child labour in the battery supply chain, suppliers risk of exposure to it and what business risks that could entail for those in the ESS industry – particularly around the EU Batteries Regulation.

Three-quarters of the lithium-ion battery supply chain could have exposure to forced labour, contravening US and EU laws and potentially leading to products being blocked from those markets, a report said.

South Korea-based H2, Inc will deploy a 1.1MW/8.8MWh vanadium flow battery (VFB) in Spain in a government-funded project.

BASF will develop and market energy storage systems based on NAS batteries in South Korea in partnership with power-to-gas company G-Philos.

H2 Inc, a South Korean vanadium flow battery company, has begun construction of a factory with 330MWh annual manufacturing capacity.

LG Energy Solution has seen a drop in its profitability which according to the company’s CFO was largely caused by industry headwinds.

Vanadium flow battery supplier Invinity Energy Systems has signed a memorandum of understanding with the power and industrial systems arm of Korean conglomerate Hyosung Corporation to commercialise its batteries in South Korea and elsewhere.

LG Energy Solution will use proceeds from its initial public offering (IPO) this month to feed into growing the company’s manufacturing capacity significantly in Europe, the Americas and Asia.

A 1.5GW offshore wind power plant in South Korea will be paired with energy storage provided by so-called ‘next generation’ lithium-ion batteries.