Berkshire Hathaway-owned NV Energy has been revealed as the ‘large western utility’ that has ordered a 220MW/440MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) from Energy Vault.

AI-driven energy storage firm Stem Inc will deliver 40MW of battery storage projects in ERCOT, Texas, for independent power producer REX, the first of US$400 million the new firm plans to procure.

South Africa’s main utility and grid operator Eskom has announced the start of construction of its first battery energy storage system (BESS) with Hyosung Heavy Industries.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has provided US$7.9 million for a 50MWh battery energy storage project using second life EV batteries in the ERCOT, Texas market, by Element Energy and NextEra Energy Resources.

Guyana, a country on South America’s north coast, has issued an invitation for bids for energy storage projects with a combined capacity of 34MWh. 

Residential battery storage capacity in Europe is set to reach 9.3GWh by the end of the year, according to SolarPower Europe.

California utility PG&E has invited residential and commercial customers to enrol onto three vehicle-to-everything (V2X) programmes using EV batteries for a range of use cases.

American Battery Factory, a new firm planning a network of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery manufacturing facilities in the US, has chosen a site in Arizona for its first.

Developers OX2 and Ingrid Capacity have started work on two battery storage projects totalling 60MW of power in Sweden.

Planned lithium-ion battery gigafactory capacity in the US has grown twice as fast as in Europe since the Inflation Reduction Act was passed, Benchmark Minerals Intelligence told Energy-Storage.news.