A megawatt-scale sodium-sulfur (NAS) battery demonstration project involving South Korea’s largest electric utility has gone online.

Global battery energy storage system (BESS) integrator Powin has selected South Korea-based ACE Engineering as a contract manufacturer for a portion of its Waratah Super Battery in New South Wales, Australia.

LG Energy Solution sees lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery production to meet demand for stationary energy storage systems (ESS) in the US market as a “new growth engine” for the South Korean manufacturer.

In a double-whammy of NMC battery news, SolarEdge has started shipping cells from its new South Korea gigafactory while Lechlanché has claimed a breakthrough in environmentally-friendly cell production.

LG Energy Solution and Hanwha, two major players in battery and renewable energy tech, aim to establish battery storage manufacturing in the US.

US$18 million Series B closed by H2 Inc, a South Korea-headquartered manufacturer of redox flow battery energy storage systems.

Another serving of news in brief from around the world in energy storage.

SolarEdge has begun producing test cells for certification at its newly opened lithium-ion cell gigafactory in South Korea.

Ongoing supply chain challenges and the impact of Russia’s war on Ukraine have affected the quarterly revenues of LG Energy Solution.

Vanadium flow battery supplier Invinity Energy Systems has signed a memorandum of understanding with the power and industrial systems arm of Korean conglomerate Hyosung Corporation to commercialise its batteries in South Korea and elsewhere.