Data centres require energy storage solutions that meet very specific needs, writes Tod Higinbotham, COO of ZincFive.

The market for deploying energy storage at data centres saw announcements this week from Digital Realty and Enel X in Ireland and Exowatt in the US.

Four battery energy storage system (BESS) units at a Microsoft data centre in Sweden from Saft have entered operation, while ABB has added ZincFive as a technology supplier for its own UPS solutions.

Startup ZincFive, maker of a novel nickel-zinc battery for stationary storage applications, has brought its total investment raised since founding seven years ago to more than US$200 million.

This edition of news in brief from around the world in energy storage focuses on small-scale but potentially significant deployments. 

News in brief from around the world in energy storage.

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