European policymakers appear to have a blind spot when it comes to energy storage and its role in the transition away from fossil fuels.

The US government Department of Energy has issued a Request for Information as it prepares to rollout a package worth more than half a billion dollars to support development and commercialisation of long-duration energy storage.

Eos Energy Enterprises added 65MWh of production capacity in the first quarter of this year.

Zinc battery storage company Eos Energy Enterprises has secured a US$200 million investment commitment.

Energy-storage.news catches up with Thomas Cornell, Senior VP Energy Storage Solutions at Mitsubishi Power Americas about the company’s energy storage market activity, strategy and future plans.

Group co-owned by State Grid Corporation of China and Singapore Power has halted investment into a hybrid project in South Australia. 

e-Zinc, which claims its zinc metal-based battery technology could provide low-cost, long-duration energy storage has raised US$25 million. 

Technologies from US V2G solutions company Nuvve and NGK’s sodium sulfur batteries will provide ancillary services and other grid stability applications in Japan. 

A plan to turn Australian island state Tasmania into the ‘Battery of the Nation’ has taken a step forwards.

A meeting between energy storage industry representatives and the UK’s energy minister Greg Hands took place last week.