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Hill Farm, one of Zenobe Energy's BESS projects in the UK. Image: Zenobe.

Corporate funding in battery storage in 2020 was up by 136% compared to 2019, Mercom says

January 20, 2021
The amount of corporate funding coming into the global battery storage industry in 2020 was more than double the amount the previous year, with over US$6.5 billion raised last year compared to around US$2.8 billion in 2019.
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