We catch up with the president of Canada-headquartered Hydrostor, Jon Norman, about the firm’s advanced compressed air energy storage (A-CAES) tech, current projects, future plans and being a developer versus system integrator.

Energy storage executives from global assurance and risk management provider DNV analyse the UK government’s proposal to kickstart investment into long-duration energy storage (LDES).

Zinc-bromine flow battery technology company Redflow has received a grant award and notice-to-proceed (NTP) for two projects in California, US, totalling 21.6MWh.

The Canadian province of Ontario should put around 6GW of long-duration energy storage (LDES) on its grid by 2032 to cost-effectively meet demand and stay on track to hit net zero targets.

We hear from UK battery storage developer-operators and long-duration energy storage (LDES) technology firms on the government’s recently-released LDES consultation, which has proposed a cap and floor scheme to kickstart investment.

An official opening took place this morning for the new vanadium flow battery electrolyte factory in Western Australia build by Australian Vanadium (AVL).

This Friday Briefing looks at the IEA’s recognition that long-duration energy storage will be essential to global decarbonisation and asks what it might take for that message to translate into immediate action.

Another utility agreement has been signed by Form Energy, the US startup which claims its iron-air battery can provide sufficient stored energy to ride through multiple days of low solar or wind production.

Norwegian power company Statkraft has agreed to acquire a 450MW pumped storage hydro project being developed near Loch Ness in Scotland, UK.

Three utility-scale long-duration energy storage (LDES) projects have been selected for contract awards in a tender held on behalf of the state of New South Wales, Australia.