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.

Enel X and Magaldi Group have begun construction on 13MWh thermal energy storage plant based on patented technology.

US energy efficiency and renewables company has entered into “strategic relationship” with Australian flow battery provider.

National science agency CSIRO has said Australia needs multiple energy storage technologies at massive scale to achieve its transition.

ESS Inc. has received UL1973 certification for the battery modules in its utility and industrial flow battery energy storage systems.

The government of New Zealand considering viability of pumped hydro among its options to plug energy deficits of between 3TWh and 5TWh.

Australian Vanadium has secured a site and progressed the design and development of a flow battery electrolyte facility in Western Australia.