How has storage fared in Biden’s first 150 days?
BY KATHERINE DAMIAN: Tomorrow marks 150 days since Joe Biden was inaugurated as US president — and, so far during his presidency, energy storage has reached new heights.
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Northvolt completes mammoth $2.75bn raise
BY RICHARD HEAP: Swedish battery maker Northvolt this week raised a cool $2.75bn of equity.
That’s the largest equity raise by a private company in Europe…
Interview: Kees van de Kerk, president, Flow Batteries Europe
BY BEN COOK: In the opinion of Kees van de Kerk, president of the newly established industry association Flow Batteries Europe (FBE), flow batteries enable you to mitigate the risk of unpredictability…
Capital Dynamics starts digital storage drive
BY RICHARD HEAP: Energy operators are increasingly aware of how software can boost profits at wind and solar farms. Now they want the same for storage. This week, Capital Dynamics affiliate Arevon Energy has picked…
Storage winning battle for investor confidence
BY PRISCILLA OBILANA: Investment in energy storage has grown substantially in recent years, but the sector has not always been an easy sell to investors. Bloomberg New Energy Finance reported in January that global…
The blooming of Chilean energy storage
BY PRISCILLA OBILANA: Chile briefly led the world in batteries in 2009. That’s when the world’s first commercial grid-scale battery storage system was turned on in the Atacama Desert, in the north of the South…
Interview: Tekna CEO Luc Dionne’s $1bn battery plan
BY BEN COOK: How can more energy storage capacity be connected to national power grids? Tekna Plasma Systems CEO Luc Dionne has a plan…
Will Europe overtake US in ‘gigafactory’ race?
BY RICHARD HEAP: US billionaire Elon Musk knows how to make money – and words too. Don’t believe me? Musk coined the term ‘Gigafactory’ in late 2013 for a huge Tesla battery factory in Nevada….