LDES policy, regulation, subsidies and market design across global markets
NYSERDA has awarded nearly $13 million to 15 projects under its Power Generation and Storage Innovation programme, backing iron-sodium, advanced compressed air and underground vanadium flow technologies.
SMEGSolar's two-site, 21 MW / 84 MWh storage portfolio carries a total cost of HUF 14.73 billion, of which EU Recovery and Resilience Fund support covers only HUF 2.17 billion at a 14.75% intensity.
Eight UK battery operators argue that an oversized first round of a 25-year cap-and-floor revenue guarantee for long-duration storage could raise consumer bills by £1.6 billion.
China's new battery industry plan lists flow batteries alongside lithium-ion and sodium-ion for the first time, signaling a policy shift from demonstration projects to industrial scale-up.
China’s 15th Five-Year Plan for a new energy system sets a 300 GW new energy storage target for 2030 and identifies long-duration storage, sodium-ion batteries and flow batteries as priority technology pathways.
A seven-ministry plan for the 15th Five-Year period lists flow batteries alongside lithium and sodium for the first time, while Anhui proposes capacity payments benchmarked at RMB165/kW-year and scaled by discharge duration relative to six hours.
The four-year, S$15 million NTU-VFT flow battery collaboration is supported under Singapore's Research, Innovation and Enterprise 2025 plans, which aim to turn lab work into validated, commercial-ready storage technology.
Energy Dome places its Piacenza expansion inside Italy's storage policy framework: the PNIEC targets, the new MACSE procurement mechanism and Terna's indicated need for 50 GWh of storage by 2030.
The EU's Electrification Action Plan cites a need for 200 GW of storage by 2030 and 500 GW by 2040, while India targets 236 GWh of battery storage by 2030 — but grid connections remain the bottleneck.
India's target of roughly 236 GWh of battery storage by 2030 is meeting its first utility-scale flow battery award, as state-linked utilities such as GIPCL and NTPC turn to vanadium redox flow technology for long-duration capacity.
Just one of 21 eligible projects using Invinity's vanadium flow batteries entered Ofgem's provisional first-round LDES portfolio, prompting the company to warn it could reconsider further investment in British battery manufacturing.
Only one project on the European Commission's Innovation Fund projects list is categorised under energy storage — Talos, a Greek intra-day electricity storage project selected under the IF25 Call and invited to grant agreement preparation.