Sweden-headquartered lithium-ion technology Northvolt has concluded its strategic review, revealing it is divesting or ceasing non-core activities, sharpening its focus to battery cell manufacturing and reducing its workforce.

Update 28 August 2024: Redwood Coast Energy Authority (RCEA) voted to continue being part of the ESSA, as did CC Power.

A new research centre ‘uniquely equipped’ to evaluate energy storage technologies has opened at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Washington, US.

State-owned generation company CS Energy has switched on its 100MW/200MWh Chinchilla battery energy storage system (BESS) in Queensland, Australia.

Executives from Sunwoda, one of the world’s largest lithium-ion battery OEMs, share the latest updates around the company’s grid-scale, residential, and commercial and industrial (C&I) energy storage system (ESS) activity.

RWE will proceed with an 8-hour duration large-scale battery storage project in New South Wales (NSW), while a tender for more long-duration resources has launched in the state.

Projects are increasingly being deployed close to populations as available plots of land become more scarce, making BESS noise a bigger topic than ever before, writes noise and acoustics consultancy Acentech’s Ethan Brush.

ESB Networks has announced that Ireland’s electricity grid now has 1GW of energy storage available from different energy storage assets.

The fifth edition of the DNV Battery Scorecard takes a deep dive into the performance and safety metrics of electric vehicle (EV) and energy storage system (ESS) battery cells.

Primergy has signed a “long-term” power purchase agreement (PPA) with California community energy supplier San Diego Community Power (SDCP).