A week after LG Energy Solutions said it would go “all in “ on a combination of lithium ion batteries, healthcare and recycling, to push its revenue to $48 billion by 2030, has acquired one of the largest Japanese grid battery integrators – US-based NEC Energy Solutions – which had virtually closed down new business in the first half of 2020. The old NEC business was ostensibly shuttered for new business, to sit out the pandemic, so that NEC could focus on products in the 5G telecoms space in Japan, and it said at the time that the $200 million business would just complete some 20 odd projects it was engaged on and then revenues would slowly fall to a…