Piotr Grudzień, innovation consultant at Bax & Company, proposes a plan to improve the efficiency of Li-ion battery reverse logistics in Europe.

EU-supported European Battery Alliance (EBA) will roll out a newly updated action plan to enable 90% of the Union’s demand for batteries to be met with domestically made products by 2030.

Emad Zand, president of Northvolt Systems, on factors impacting the growth of a European battery storage industry.

New guidelines for procurement and utilisation of battery energy storage systems (BESS) as assets for generation, transmission and distribution and ancillary services have been published by India’s Ministry of Power.

Construction will commence in New Zealand on the country’s biggest battery energy storage system (BESS) project so far, in July.

There is still plenty of educating decision-makers on storage’s place on the grid to do for US states to follow in the footsteps California and Texas.

Trade body Flow Batteries Europe (FBE) has written to EU legislators imploring them to include its members products in the scope of upcoming Battery Passport regulations.

The implementation of regulative security is all that is needed to bring in investment for long duration storage.

Investors are becoming increasingly comfortable with energy storage as an asset class but numerous regulatory and market design hurdles remain across European markets.

European lithium battery industry trade body RECHARGE has warned that some parts of the EU’s Draft Report on Batteries and Waste Batteries may stifle the industry and not deliver on objectives, ahead of today’s vote.