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''Multi-day'' storage startup Form Energy breaks ground on first pilot

The company''s CEO, Mateo Jaramillo, spoke with Energy-Storage.news for interviews as Form emerged from stealth mode, claiming that the battery could complement the roles of lithium-ion (Li-ion) and other technologies like flow batteries and pumped hydro, enabling renewable energy to serve as ''baseload'' for the grid.

Vanadium flow battery partners plan Australia gigafactory

Australian Vanadium "hopes to be in a position to supply vanadium electrolyte" for CellCube-NHCE''s first 16MWh project and subsequent projects, a source close to the company told Energy-Storage.news today. Australian Vanadium currently seeks financing for a vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) electrolyte plant.

Energy storage factories announced by Eaton, Kontrolmatik

So far, while the development of electric vehicle (EV) battery gigafactories are on their way at numerous major sites in the US, Energy-Storage.news has so far only reported on planned new factories to produce LFP cells and systems from KORE Power, building a 12GWh factory in Arizona, SPARKZ, with a factory on the way in West Virginia and

Gotion: First US-made ESS battery packs produced

Energy-Storage.news'' publisher Solar Media will host the 6th Energy Storage Summit USA, 19-20 March 2024 in Austin, Texas. Featuring a packed programme of panels, presentations and fireside chats from industry leaders focusing on accelerating the market for energy storage across the country. For more information, go to the website.

GE''s energy business to buy US-made LFP

GE Vernova said last week (16 November) that the deal would allow it to source batteries for solar-plus-storage projects in its pipeline. ONE''s closest rivals or counterparts include KORE Power and American Battery Factory (ABF), which are currently also making their bids to be among the country''s first domestically-headquartered LFP

''Multi-day'' storage startup Form Energy breaks

The company''s CEO, Mateo Jaramillo, spoke with Energy-Storage.news for interviews as Form emerged from stealth mode, claiming that the battery could complement the roles of lithium-ion (Li-ion) and other

French gigafactory firm Verkor and Nidec in 10GWh BESS deal

Verkor is building a gigafactory in France. Image: Verkor. Verkor, a company building a lithium-ion gigafactory in France, and system integrator Nidec ASI will together produce up to 10GWh of battery energy storage systems (BESS) to 2030.

Romania relaunches call for investment in batteries for PV plants

The Ministry of Energy of Romania has reopened a competitive solicitation for battery storage for the grid integration of renewable energy, seeking "at least" 240MW and 480MWh of resources. The Ministry made its announcement yesterday (8 February), aiming to get the 2-hour duration battery energy storage system (BESS) facilities up and

Energy Storage Awards, 21 November 2024, Hilton London

Many of the battery gigafactory projects in Europe are likely to see delays, analysts covering the sector tell Energy-Storage.news, as Chinese battery major CATL announced a second site on the continent. Factory will be completed at the end of this year, but commercial production will start as of second quarter of 2023 following a quarter

Battery gigafactory serving EV and BESS sectors opens in New York

Workers preparing production lines at the iM3NY factory ahead of its opening in Endicott, New York. Image: iM3NY via Twitter. A lithium-ion battery factory has opened in New York State which could ramp-up to 38GWh annual production capacity by 2030, serving the electric vehicle (EV) and stationary battery storage sectors.

First phase of 800MWh world biggest flow battery

The flow battery company behind that project, Invinity Systems, is also supplying Australia''s first grid-scale flow battery storage, a 2MW/8MWh system co-located with a 6MWp solar PV plant in South Australia. Invinity will also supply a 2.8MW/8.4MWh battery storage system at a demonstration project in Alberta, Canada.

Gotion building Vietnam''s first LFP gigafactory

The factory''s groundbreaking ceremony held on 18 November. Image: VinGroup. Gotion is in a joint venture (JV) building a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cell gigafactory in Vietnam, targeting electric vehicle (EV) and energy storage system (ESS) markets. Meanwhile, in Vietnam, the market for battery energy storage systems (BESS) has yet to

Caterpillar launches integrated BESS solution Cat ESS

The company''s venture capital (VC) arm Caterpillar Venture Capital also invested in UK-based second life energy storage firm Connected Energy last year. A similar industrial, heavy vehicle and power solutions firm,

Exide''s Portuguese lead acid battery factory to be powered by its

The 3.8MW project emerges a month after the EDP said it would work to capture the "sizeable" PV opportunity in Portugal and elsewhere, revealing a goal to install a global 2GW by 2022. At the time, the energy giant said it would back its move into solar and wind by raising €6 billion (US$6.76 billion) in fresh cash, and riding the tailwinds created by policy

Form Energy''s ''100-hour'' iron-air battery attracts another US utility

It is currently building its first battery factory, in West Virginia. In December the company was awarded a US$30 million grant from the California Energy Commission Energy-Storage.news'' publisher Solar Media will host the 6th Energy Storage Summit USA, 19-20 March 2024 in Austin, Texas. Featuring a packed programme of panels

Norway''s FREYR Battery gets €100 million EU

This week the EU announced that a total of €3.6 billion is being awarded to 41 so-called large-scale projects through the fund''s latest round. That includes €800 million for clean energy tech manufacturing projects, of which FREYR Battery''s Giga Arctic facility in

Germany''s Fenecon builds ESS factory which will

Second life battery storage will be in focus in a feature article in the forthcoming Q4 2022 edition of PV Tech Power, due out in December. See here for more details on how to subscribe. Energy-Storage.news'' publisher

Saft opens 480MWh energy storage system factory in China

While the 100-year-old company serves customers in markets ranging from aerospace and defence to medical, telecoms, transport and more, within the ESS segment Saft "has grown from being a mere battery supplier, to a fully integrated energy storage and microgrid technology solutions partner," Saft CEO Ghislain Lescuyer said in a short video

Scatec awarded solar projects with 1,140MWh battery storage

The weighted average price of the already-announced Preferred Bids, which included various technologies like natural gas as well as renewables with about 430MW / 1,300MWh of energy storage, was R1,575 (US$106.63) per MWh, Energy-Storage.news reported in March. Scatec has estimated that project CapEx will be around US$1 billion for the three

Caterpillar launches integrated BESS solution Cat ESS

The company''s venture capital (VC) arm Caterpillar Venture Capital also invested in UK-based second life energy storage firm Connected Energy last year. A similar industrial, heavy vehicle and power solutions firm, Volvo, took part in the same fundraiser and this year has also seen it expand into the ESS market.

Energy Storage Awards, 21 November 2024, Hilton

Many of the battery gigafactory projects in Europe are likely to see delays, analysts covering the sector tell Energy-Storage.news, as Chinese battery major CATL announced a second site on the continent. Factory will

Cost and materials are big non-technical barriers to energy storage

Invinity''s vanadium flow battery tech at the Energy Superhub Oxford. Image: Invinity Energy Systems. High cost and material availability are the main non-technical barriers to energy storage deployment at the scale needed, according to a new report from MIT.

Texas-based developer Stella orders 480MWh

CLOU announced 1 January 2024 that it has received the battery energy storage system (BESS) equipment order from Stella Energy Solutions, a developer and independent power producer. Although the company is known to be building a new factory in China''s Pearl River Delta region with 14GWh annual production capacity for BESS and 5GW for PCS,

SolarEdge opens 2GWh lithium battery cell factory in

However they will also be made for other applications including mobile energy storage and stationary energy storage systems that require "high power and high-reliability cells". For example, Kokam was awarded a contract

GE Renewable Energy to ramp new ''Renewable Hybrid'' factory in

Image: Andy Colthorpe / Solar Media. US conglomerate General Electric (GE) is looking to triple its solar and battery energy storage manufacturing capacity at its newly launched Renewable Hybrids factory in India by the end of 2022 to 9GW per annum.

Arizona ''thrilled to be selected'' to host

That should begin this year and the factory is scheduled to be up and running by the second quarter of 2023. KORE Power designs and makes energy storage systems (ESS) as well as battery cells of both lithium iron phosphate (LFP) and nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) chemistry, battery modules and packs in VDA format and its own battery management system

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