January 27, 2022: Bulgarian battery firm Monbat on January 18 announced it had signed a partnership agreement with the UK firm Alpha House, which provides ‘consultative intelligent power solutions’ across several markets and industries across the UK and Ireland.

In a joint announcement, the companies said the terms of agreement are that Alpha House will be Monbat’s exclusive manufacturing partner, service provider and distributor throughout the UK, “to facilitate the expansion of products and services to existing and future customers and emerging markets alike”.

Alpha House makes and distributes batteries across a range of sectors and applications, including UPS, solar and wind, telecoms, EVs and mobility.

In other news, Monbat on January 25 confirmed it had joined the Consortium for Battery Innovation.

“The main priorities of Monbat in the collaboration with CBI will be the commercialization of bipolar batteries, deepening the circularity principles’ application in the lead-acid sector and the proactive collaboration with the renewables’ business for increasing the share of BESS in the global energy system,” the firm said.

“Monbat and CBI will cooperate in the field of research and solutions for the reduction of greenhouse gases generated in lead battery production and in the energy sector in general.”