‘Smart’ energy storage provider Stem finished the first quarter of 2022 with an order backlog worth in excess of a half-billion dollars.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has formally launched a US$3.16 billion grant funding opportunity for its domestic battery supply chain, the latest in a series of moves to support the sector.

Tesla made 846MWh of battery energy storage system deployments in the first quarter of this year.

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

Li-Cycle has been selected as preferred battery recycling partner to LG Chem and LG Energy Solution for their North America operations.

A region of southern California desert has the potential to become the hub of a “world-class lithium industry”.

CATL has sold 900MWh of battery energy storage system (BESS) equipment to US independent power producer (IPP) Broad Reach Power. 

President Joe Biden’s recent invocation of the Defense Production Act of 1950 could help solve supply chain issues, but only over the longer term. 

Lithium-ion will struggle to compete at long durations and its price declines cannot continue forever, said Alan Greenshields, Director EMEA for iron electrolyte flow battery supplier ESS Inc, in a rebuttal to an earlier Energy-storage.news article on the topic.

Facilities aimed at making products for the BESS industry announced by Turkey-headquartered Kontrolmatik and Ireland-headquartered Eaton.