Mobile battery energy storage systems offer an alternative to diesel generators for temporary off-grid power. Alex Smith of Moxion looks at some of the technology’s many applications and scopes out its future market development.

Mobile energy storage firm Nomad has won a US$9.5 million DOE grant to deploy its product in rural communities in Vermont, US.

Mobile battery storage rental company Greener Power Solutions plans to diversify its supply base away Alfen and has already bought a unit from Northvolt.

Mobile battery storage rental company Greener Power Solutions has raised €45 million (US$45 million) from DIF Capital Partners.

This week’s roundup of news in brief from around the world in energy storage focuses on recent products and services launches.

A megawatt-scale energy storage system will be rented out to power a gold mine in Western Australia by Aggreko, the mobile power solutions company which bought up energy storage provider Younicos last year.