California-based FranklinWH Energy Storage has secured a US$25 million Series B to scale up its residential battery and energy management software offering in the US and Puerto Rico.

Virtual power plant (VPP) projects using home batteries have been launched and extended in Texas, Vermont and California.

Germany and US residential battery storage and VPP provider sonnen’s network of batteries in Germany has reached 250MWh, and will hit 1GWh in the next few years, it said.

Energy storage and energy management solutions provider Electriq Power has completed a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger.

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Europe saw an 83% increase in residential battery installations in 2022, according to research firm LCP-Delta.

Bitech has received a Letter of Intent from Nam Viet Green Energy for solar, battery storage project financing and execution.

The Australian market for residential battery storage grew by an estimated 55% in 2022 from the previous year, according to SunWiz.

The first phase of a residential battery storage program in the US state of New Hampshire has met all its conditions and saved the utility “more than expected” after an initial 100 units were deployed.

Connecticut utilities Eversource, and UI and a quasi-state bank have together launched the next 100MW tranche of a programme aimed at incentivising 580MW of customer-sited energy storage projects.