The US battery storage market is struggling to adapt to rising raw materials costs and has reached a “crisis point”.

The Solar Media editorial team reflect on what’s proven to be a frenetic 12 months for the global solar PV and energy storage industries.

A gigawatt-scale factory producing lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries for the transport and stationary energy storage sectors could be built in Serbia, the first of its kind in Europe. 

Action must be taken to build up domestic battery manufacturing capacity in the U.S. to meet demand for industrial-scale energy storage systems, argues Lindsay Gorrill, CEO of KORE Power.

We also asked what it means for the company to now be under SolarEdge’s ownership, why effective management and control of batteries may be a more important safety question than just which battery chemistry to choose.