An evaluation of 2022 and predictions for the coming year from German battery storage developer and system integrator ECO STOR, and UK-based second life energy storage firm Connected Energy.

Some companies which were previously considering Europe for lithium-ion gigafactory projects are now looking to the US instead, executives working in site selection and design told Energy-Storage.news.

We continue looking back over 2022’s top content on Energy-Storage.news with our pick of the Guest Blogs published in the past 12 months.

There’s barely time to catch our breath before 2023 begins but here’s a chance to look back with the top picks of our content from 2022.

We caught up with Mike Ferry, president of California-based second life energy storage firm Smartville Inc.

Gotion High-Tech aims to build gigafactory in Thailand targeting the electric vehicle (EV) and stationary storage markets.

Could we start seeing ‘third life’ or even ‘fourth life’ energy storage, with EV batteries deployed in multiple different systems in their lifetime?

Energy Vault has provided a dizzying variety of updates in its Q3 results, covering European battery storage, a green hydrogen system, a new CFO and its gravity-based energy storage deployments in the US and China.

Microgrid projects in the US states of Washington and Maryland combining battery storage, solar and vehicle-grid integration have gone online.

A couple of weeks ago, Energy-Storage.news met with leading figures from the energy storage industry at RE+ 2022.