Ed Gunn, VP of revenue at home battery storage and virtual power plant (VPP) specialist Lunar Energy, on the market’s recent past and future potential.

US residential solar and energy storage installer Sunrun has posted revenue of US$724.6 million in the third quarter of this year, as the company implements its “storage-first strategy”.

Sunrun installed 258.2MW of new solar in Q3 2023, and saw a 131% year-on-year increase in energy storage installations.

Electriq Power, a US provider of battery storage solutions, has secured a deal that could be worth more than US$300 million.

Australian Vanadium has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with developer North Harbour Clean Energy (NHCE).

Two solar-plus-storage projects in Cameroon will be equipped with modular, pre-assembled generation and battery solutions from Norway-headquartered renewable energy power producer Scatec.

Vanadium flow batteries are considered a leading light of the push towards technologies that can meet the need for long-duration energy storage. Not least of all by the companies that mine the metal from the ground. Andy Colthorpe learns how two primary vanadium producers increasingly view flow batteries as an exciting opportunity in the energy transition space.

News in brief from around the world in energy storage.

US residential solar installer Sunrun is deploying aggregated rooftop solar-plus-batteries in partnership with utility Southern California Edison (SCE), in a demonstration project of the systems’ capabilities to run as a virtual power plant (VPP).

A just-commissioned solar and battery storage system will reduce diesel consumption by at least 80% at a base for 300 humanitarian workers in South Sudan, managed by the UN’s International Organisation for Migration (IOM).