Inflation Reduction Act has created buzz but not yet business deals for flow battery maker ESS Inc, according to CEO Eric Dresselhuys.

Enervenue has completed UL9540A tests for its nickel-hydrogen cells, units and systems and obtained UL1973 certification.

Geothermal-based energy storage company EarthBridge Energy has secured land rights to deploy its technology in Texas.

Utility Xcel Energy has received a US$20 million grant commitment from VC firm Breakthrough Energy for projects using Form Energy’s iron-air battery, while a sodium ion battery firm has secured bridge financing.

A ‘first of its kind’ microgrid will be installed at a California substation, where it will use a combination of lithium-ion batteries and green hydrogen to provide 48 hours of back up.

Energy Dome, the European startup with a long-duration energy storage system technology based on CO2, has closed its Series B funding round.

The UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) is providing £30 million (US$37.5 million) in grants for long-duration energy storage (LDES) projects from Synchrostor, Invinity Energy Systems and Cheesecake Energy.

NextEra’s eight-hour energy storage project in California will use lithium-ion technology, but ‘battery chemistry did not play a major role in project evaluation’, offtaker Clean Power Alliance told Energy-Storage.news.

California utility Clean Power Alliance has inked a 15-year PPA with NextEra Energy Resources for an eight-hour duration energy storage project.

Invinity and BASF have announced the first deployments of their non-lithium battery storage tech in Hungary and Australia respectively.