Chinese sodium-ion battery manufacturer HiNa Battery has signed a five-year agreement with South Korea’s Volta Co. for the supply of 10 GWh of sodium-ion batteries, marking a significant expansion of the companies’ existing cooperation. The strategic agreement was signed on…
Enerparc AG has begun preliminary insolvency proceedings, in a surprise to the industry. According to the official court announcement of the appointment of an administrator, the court appointed attorney Stefan Denkhaus from commercial law firm BRL. Under German insolvency law,…
The Empresa de Transmisión Eléctrica Dominicana (ETED) has opened an expression of interest for the development of a portfolio of battery energy storage systems for the Dominican Republic’s interconnected national electricity system. The initiative envisages a reference capacity of up…
The Australian renewables and energy storage arm of Samsung has received formal grid connection clearance for the Mangoplah battery energy storage project being developed near Wagga Wagga in New South Wales. The 5.3.4A letter, issued by the Australian Energy Market…
The European battery storage market is gaining momentum, with 57 GWh of installations expected this year, according to EUPD Research’s latest Electrical Energy Storage (EES) Report. That would represent a 78% increase from the 32 GWh installed last year, with…
China has repotedly instituted an administrative domestic freeze on regulatory approvals for new battery manufacturing capacity. Authorities are conducting ‘an audit’ into operational and planned pipelines across stationary energy storage and electric vehicle cells. The suspension was first reported over…
Canadian pension fund OPTrust is seeking an exit from Australian clean-energy retailer and developer Flow Power, according to a report by The Australian Financial Review’s ‘Street Talk’, an investment and corporate deal-making reporting column, that frequently flags major renewable asset…
Vietnam is preparing to transition its power system beyond basic Time-of-Use (TOU) tariffs and industrial demand response programs toward virtual power plants (VPPs). According to a publication by Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) via its Industry Agency and…
Infineon Technologies will supply its silicon carbide power semiconductors (SiC) to Chinese energy storage manufacturer Fox ESS for its future products, fo use in inverters. By using the ‘CoolSiC MOSFETs 1200 V G2’ in the ‘Q-DPAK-PACK,’ Fox ESS says its…
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), Rewiring America and Google have launched the Smart Home Assets for Reliability and Efficiency (SHARE) program, a virtual power plant (VPP) designed to deploy and manage flexible residential energy devices in the San Francisco…