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Aerial view of the Wandoan South BESS. Image: Vena Energy.

Australia’s Climate Council renews calls for a renewable energy storage target policy

November 18, 2022
Australia needs its government’s support for low-carbon energy to extend to a policy target for energy storage.

Policymakers take note: You need flow batteries to hit your decarbonisation targets

August 16, 2022
Anthony Price summarises what took place at this year’s International Flow Batteries Forum Summer Conference in Brussels, Belgium.
US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm has previously highlighted a potential role for flow batteries on the US grid. Image: US DoE event screenshotted from YouTube.

Long-duration energy storage ‘for everyone’ says US DoE as McKinsey publishes advice to corporates

May 16, 2022
The US government Department of Energy has issued a Request for Information as it prepares to rollout a package worth more than half a billion dollars to support development and commercialisation of long-duration energy storage.
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European decarbonisation and fuel independence from Russia ‘impossible without energy storage’

May 11, 2022
European Union must develop coherent strategy on energy storage to achieve decarbonisation goals and end dependency on Russian fossil fuels.
Zinc fuel cell module at Zinc8's facilities in North America. Image: Zinc8.

Zinc: A link from battery history to energy storage’s future

February 14, 2022
From data centres to long-duration storage for the grid, zinc looks increasingly likely to play a part in the energy transition, writes Dr Josef Daniel-Ivad from the the Zinc Battery Initiative.
Northvolt's first Sweden plant, Northvolt Ett. Image: Northvolt.

Battery trade body calls for caution as EU votes on sustainability measures

February 10, 2022
European lithium battery industry trade body RECHARGE has warned that some parts of the EU’s Draft Report on Batteries and Waste Batteries may stifle the industry and not deliver on objectives, ahead of today’s vote. 
A large-scale flow battery demonstration and research facility in Germany. Image: Fraunhofer ICT.

European Green Deal ‘needs to support long-duration energy storage’

February 4, 2022
Industry stakeholder organisations from across Europe have come forward to urge the European Union to support the adoption of long-duration energy storage in its European Green Deal.
ACP CEO Heather Zichal and ESA's Jason Burwen at the ESA Annual Conference, held earlier this month. Image: ESA via Twitter.

‘Deploy, deploy, deploy’: Energy Storage Association’s merger with American Clean Power Association in focus

December 13, 2021
Ahead of a merger between the Energy Storage Association and American Clean Power Association, Energy-Storage.news speaks to the leaders of both.
Battery adoption is following the path laid out by solar, Guidehouse said. Image: Solarwatt.

European households’ battery storage capacity forecast to reach 12.8GWh by 2025

November 25, 2021
Annual residential battery storage installations in Europe passed the 100,000 mark for the first time ever in 2020, reaching a cumulative total of 3GWh capacity. 
Image: Form Energy.

BP, Breakthrough Energy Ventures in Long Duration Energy Storage Council, launching at COP26

November 4, 2021
A new CEO-led organisation representing a broad range of long-duration energy storage technologies and their role in achieving global energy system decarbonisation has launched today. 

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