Recommendations for how the US can double its lithium battery revenues have been published by Department of Energy’s Li-Bridge partnership.

Imperial County has approved schemes to incentivise investment into lithium value chain, leveraging the region’s abundant brine resources.

“Overall we are very happy with the direction of the budget,” says Dr Rahul Walawalkar, president of the India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA).

US Senator Joe Manchin and fellow bipartisan colleagues have urged the Biden Administration to invest more in non-lithium energy storage technologies, while DOE Loan Programs Office head Jigar Shah expects companies developing the latter to broadly secure 1GWh orders this year.

Australia wants to leverage its position as a mining and minerals hub to capture opportunities in the battery industry.

Energy storage and electric mobility solutions provider NHOA increased revenues from energy storage tenfold year-on-year from 2021 to 2022.

‘Multi-day’ battery storage startup Form Energy’s proprietary iron-air battery is set to be deployed at the sites of two US coal power plants due for retirement.

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

Agilitas Energy, a developer of distributed solar PV and energy storage with a focus on the north-east US, is our latest contributor.

Thoughts from a trio of energy storage technology providers and system integrators on the year just gone, and what lies in store in 2023.