European Commission has given green light for state aid towards development of a large-scale pumped hydro energy storage in Finland.

Quidnet, developing a proprietary mechanical energy storage technology, will receive funding from US DOE’s ARPA-E.

UK government Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has provided US$39.67 million to five energy storage projects.

A UK company has received funding to explore potential sites in India for demonstration of its proprietary gravity energy storage technology.

CellCube and North Harbour Clean Energy in talks to build factory in Australia with 1GW/8GWh annual production capacity.

Tender to pair hydro plants in Ukraine with battery storage, amid reports of massive damage to the country’s grid and generation fleet.

Invinity Energy Systems has sold 2.2MWh of vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFB) for use in Taiwan.

BASF will develop and market energy storage systems based on NAS batteries in South Korea in partnership with power-to-gas company G-Philos.

Long-duration energy storage (LDES) projects in the US will be able to compete for a share of “nearly US$350 million” of government funding.

Greenko will provide 1,500MWh pumped hydro energy storage in India to back Serentica Renewables’ round-the-clock renewable energy offering.