Another edition of news in brief, this time from the UK’s booming large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) market.

Tesla has recorded its highest storage deployments to date in the first quarter of 2023, enabled by ramp up of its factory in California.

More than two-thirds of the planned lithium-ion battery production capacity in Europe is at risk of delay, downsizing or cancellation mainly due to the Inflation Reduction Act, according to a new study.

Multiple steps forward have been taken in Ontario in the development of Canada’s largest battery storage project to date.

Energy storage deployments by electric carmaker and tech company Tesla grew 64% year-on-year, reaching 6.5GWh in 2022.

We caught up with Mike Ferry, president of California-based second life energy storage firm Smartville Inc.

New South Wales has pledged financial support to pumped hydro project, while state’s first grid-scale BESS is in full commercial operations.

A 50MW/100MWh battery energy storage system, the largest in continental Europe, has been inaugurated in Belgium by developer Corsica Sole.

Finland and California-based second life energy storage firms Cactos and Smartville Inc have raised nearly US$10 million to commercialise systems using repurposed Tesla EV batteries – we talk to both company founders.