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At least 18 GW of batteries await Brazil’s planned auction While Brazil is making progress in customer-side, "behind-the-meter" and off-grid battery solutions – with more than 700 MWh – it still lacks guidelines for a planned gigawatt-scale national auction. Markus Vlasits, president of the Brazilian Association of Energy Storage Solutions (ABSAE), tells pv magazine about the nation's utility-scale battery bottleneck.

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Finance

Spanish battery startup HESStec backed by Austrian utility Verbund and ABB Valencia's HESStec (Hybrid Energy Storage Solutions Ltd.) has developed its Intelligent Node Management System (INMS) and offers patented hybrid energy storage solutions.

Sandra Enkhardt

Jun 16, 2025

Second-life batteries

Voltfang opens ‘Europe’s largest second-life battery factory’ The German company raised €15 million ($17.3 million) in Series B investor finance and has expanded its battery energy storage system (BESS) manufacturing facility in Aachen so it can now be scaled up to 1 GWh per year.

Jun 13, 2025

R&D

Australian battery startup develops innovative separators Battery technology startup Voltavate has secured AUD 850,000 ($553,000) in an oversubscribed, 'pre-seed' funding round led by Australian investor Artesian.

Jun 12, 2025

Supply chain

US battery supplier Powin files for bankruptcy The Oregon-based business has been hit by steepling tariffs as it imported lithium iron-phosphate (LFP) battery components from China.

Jun 11, 2025

Manufacturing

Battery makers bullish about Brazilian market prospects Chinese and Brazilian battery energy storage system (BESS) manufacturers and installers are preparing to invest in a promising market beset by rising energy costs and unreliable grid supply just as battery prices have fallen.

Alessandra Neris

Jun 11, 2025

Supply chain

Varta CEO: ‘We wanted too much in too short a time’ Michael Ostermann, who last year took over as CEO of German battery giant Varta AG, tells pv magazine about guiding the company through its financial restructure, the causes of the crisis, and returning the brand to a position of strength.

Jun 11, 2025

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Altech’s sodium chloride solid state battery exceeds expectations Western Australian battery technology company Altech Batteries has announced its first Cerenergy ABS60 salt-based battery energy storage system prototype is online and operating successfully across a range of temperatures, confirming its thermal stability and commercial viability.

Oct 01, 2024

Flow batteries

ESS Inc, ESI partner on 3.2 GWh iron flow battery manufaturing site in Australia Under construction long-duration storage manufacturing site secures AUD 65 million ($45 million) in public and private funds, including AUD 25 million from state government. ESS Inc confirms to ESS News it has ambitions to manufacture in Europe.

, Matthew Lynas

Sep 24, 2024

Manufacturing

Northvolt announces 1,600 redundancies in Sweden The European battery maker has made the move as part of a strategic review which will focus on getting its first 16 GWh of production capacity running at its Northvolt Ett site.

Sep 24, 2024

Supply chain

Battery companies can access funds in Poland, Indo-Pacific markets Two separate renewables funding announcements have made grants and loans available to battery companies on opposite sides of the planet.

David Carroll, Patrick Jowett

Sep 23, 2024

Flow batteries

China to host 1.6 GW vanadium flow battery manufacturing complex The all-vanadium liquid flow industrial park project is taking shape in the Baotou city in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region of China, backed by a CNY 11.5 billion ($1.63 billion) investment. Meanwhile, China's largest vanadium flow electrolyte base is planned in the city of Panzhihua, in the Sichuan province.

Sep 23, 2024

Supply chain

US announces $3bn for battery manufacturing, recycling Iron-air battery manufacture and numerous recycling plants are among the projects to benefit from the latest round of Department of Energy (DoE) funding.

Sep 23, 2024

Manufacturing

Jindal India targets 5 GWh of battery storage cell capacity by 2027 The manufacturer's renewable energy unit plans to build a 1 GWh battery pack assembly line by 2025. It aims to become an end-to-end player in energy storage systems with 5 GWh of cell production capacity by 2027.

Sep 19, 2024

Manufacturing

Enzinc opens US manufacturing center for battery anodes The company’s proprietary technology is enabling traditional lead-acid battery makers to offer what the company says are safe, sustainable, and substantially higher-powered nickel-zinc batteries.

Sep 19, 2024

Industry

Large-capacity battery storage, variety of C&I solutions at China’s EESA EXPO This year’s edition of the China International Energy Storage Expo (EESA EXPO) has underlined the latest energy density achievements in the battery energy storage space on both cell and system levels. Meanwhile, the sheer number of commercial and industrial (C&I) systems on display spoke of growing demand in this market segment. Alternative lithium-ion battery chemistries were not easy to find.

Sep 17, 2024

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