Some 2,000 residential battery systems in Belgium have been aggregated into a virtual power plant (VPP) and are providing balancing services to transmission system operator Elia.

Some big names have announced steps forward in their residential battery offerings.

Bank CIT will be the lead arranger of financing for Swell Energy’s pipeline of behind-the-meter commercial energy storage projects in California.

VoltStorage, a developer and maker of energy storage systems using vanadium flow batteries, has raised €24 million (US$24.3 million) in a Series C.

German home energy storage and virtual power plant (VPP) company sonnen has deployed 86 of its ecoLinx batteries in a new-build complex in Florida, US.

Programmes to provide home energy storage solutions to low-income homes and businesses have been launched in Washington D.C and Connecticut by Electriq Power and Generac/PosiGen, respectively.

SolarEdge has begun producing test cells for certification at its newly opened lithium-ion cell gigafactory in South Korea.

The brother of the founder of the US’ largest homebuilder D R Horton has chosen Salient Energy’s zinc-ion battery storage system for installation in the 200,000 homes his company plans to build, saying that lithium-ion has “a lot of issues”.

Guidehouse Insights says that the annual power capacity deployments of battery-based residential energy storage systems (RESS) are expected to grow at a CAGR of 21.3% from 2021 to 2030 globally.

“Intelligent energy platform” company Kaluza is claiming a UK first as it provides one of the country’s distribution network operators (DNOs) with flexibility from domestic batteries and transport solutions using one platform.