A 100MW/200MWh battery storage project in Western Australia is about to begin its operational test phase ahead of commissioning.

Powin has ‘big plans’ in the balance-of-system space and could become ‘the biggest energy storage platform in the world’, president Anthony Carroll says.

ElevenEs has opened a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) gigafactory in Serbia, which it claimed is the first in Europe.

Pomega is selling the future offtake from its South Carolina ESS gigafactory into a market with “a lot of scepticism about whether US battery cell production is viable”, its VP business development told Energy-Storage.news.

Tesla will start producing Megapacks, its utility-scale energy storage product, from a new plant in Shanghai from Q2 2024.

Gotion High-Tech has continued recent moves into new markets across Asia, signing a deal with Japan’s Edison Power.

Norwegian firms Morrow Batteries and Eldrift have announced a non-binding offtake agreement for 1.5GWh of Morrow’s lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries.

Construction has started on two battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in Idaho which will be delivered by Powin Energy.

Groundbreaking has taken place for a manufacturing hub in West Virginia, US, to be powered by a large-scale solar-plus-storage microgrid.

Powin “very close” to announcing first US factory, company working to extend its reach into new markets including the UK.