Enersense International has been enlisted to provide maintenance services on four battery storage projects in Lithuania deployed by Fluence.

The commercial manager for Balance Power, one of two UK developers to have announced project approvals this week, has questioned whether the market standard 2-hour duration is enough for net zero.

Multinational energy firm RWE has started construction on two battery storage projects totalling 220MW/235MWh in Germany.

Renewable energy firm RES and battery storage developer SCR have partnered to deploy another grid-scale battery storage project in Sweden, this time totalling 17MW.

ZincFive, a US company developing nickel-zinc battery technology for applications including data centre UPS has closed a Series D round.

System integrator FlexGen will provide energy storage systems and optimisation software for a 100MW portfolio recently acquired by investment fund manager SUSI Partners from SMT Energy.

The US energy storage industry collectively deployed 476MW / 764MWh in a single three-month period between July to September, with analysis firm Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables describing the record-breaking performance as a “sign of things to come”.

Pivot Power is keeping an eye on solutions other than lithium-ion, but chief executive Matt Allen stressed the need to focus on the now and deploy chemistries that are “ready and investable”.

France-headquartered mega-utility EDF has accepted delivery and installation of a flywheel energy storage system manufactured by Germany’s Stornetic, at EDF’s “full testing playground” south of Paris.