Cambridge startup claims its electrolytes can triple flow battery energy density
A startup led by Cambridge University scientists and the former chair of Oxford PV is attempting to commercialize flow battery electrolytes with greater energy density than vanadium-based batteries. Kodiaq Technologies claims its electrolytes can be deployed as a drop-in solution for redox flow batteries.
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Boralex commissions its first BESS project in North America
Canadian developer commissions 320 MWh project in partnership with Ontario's Walpole Island First Nation community. The Sanjgon BESS is capable of four-hour continuous delivery to the grid at full power. The project uses 89 Tesla Megapack 2XL units.
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BNEF: Lithium-ion battery pack prices fall to $108/kWh, stationary storage becomes lowest price segment
According to BNEF, battery pack prices for stationary storage fell to $70/kWh in 2025, a 45% decrease from 2024. This represents the steepest decline among all lithium-ion battery use cases and and makes stationary storage the cheapest category for the first time.
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Top 5 trends shaping India’s battery energy storage market in 2025
India’s battery storage landscape underwent a decisive transformation in 2025. Across utilities, regulators, and developers, BESS moved beyond early-stage exploration and is increasingly recognized as an essential component for grid stability, renewable integration, and long-term energy planning.
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No extremes, except one: Battery trading in a surprisingly steady November
November brought calm to Germany’s power market. As volatility dropped and price spreads narrowed in a well-supplied system, battery revenues became harder to capture. Lennard Wilkening, CEO and co-founder of suena energy, unpacks what this meant for BESS operators and why multi-market coordination proved essential once again.
Building the grid required for the future
Ten years ago, when the Paris Agreement set the world on a path toward limiting global warming to 1.5°C, most energy experts understood that renewable energy and battery energy storage systems (BESS) would need to scale dramatically. What fewer anticipated was just how completely this would require us to reimagine the grid itself, writes Aazzum Yassir of Pulse Clean Energy.
Demand diligence from US battery integration
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Stacking value in a changing market: BESS revenue in October
October brought a fundamental shift to battery trading dynamics In Germany as the day-ahead market switched from hourly to 15-minute intervals. Lennard Wilkening, CEO and Co-Founder of suena energy, breaks down how this structural change, combined with shifting weather patterns, reshaped revenue opportunities – and why tactical responsiveness across markets will only grow in importance as winter volatility sets in.
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ENTSO-E Policy Paper on Market Design for Utility-Scale Energy Storage
Europe’s decarbonisation requires a rapid, coordinated and system-optimised deployment of utility-scale energy storage. As the share of variable renewable energy increases, storage plays an increasingly important role in ensuring security of supply, efficient system operation and the integration of renewable generation.
Fox ESS tops residential energy storage market across Europe and beyond
Fox ESS, a global leader in renewable energy solutions, has been ranked the number one provider of residential energy storage systems in Europe, the UK, and Poland in H1 2025, based on MWh shipments in S&P Global Energy Residential Energy Storage Index.
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Cambridge startup claims its electrolytes can triple flow battery energy density
A startup led by Cambridge University scientists and the former chair of Oxford PV is attempting to commercialize flow battery electrolytes with greater energy density than vanadium-based batteries. Kodiaq Technologies claims its electrolytes can be deployed as a drop-in solution for redox flow batteries.
China connects world’s largest vanadium flow battery project
Gigawatt-hour scale long-duration energy storage (LDES) project is expected to reduce curtailment in Xinjiang, a region of China with high solar and wind generation, and transmission bottlenecks. The flow battery installation is co-located with a PV plant.
Mitigating sodium-ion battery degradation through scandium doping
A team at Tokyo University of Science (TUS) has identified a structural mechanism by which adding small amounts of scandium to layered sodium manganese oxide cathodes slows the degradation that typically limits sodium-ion battery lifetimes.
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