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.

Engineering firm KBR will work with Shell to design an energy storage facility combining green hydrogen and battery storage at a wind farm off the coast of the Netherlands, the first of two similar pieces of news.

Norwegian lithium-ion gigafactory firm FREYR has raised over a quarter of a billion dollars and completed the previously-announced JV with Nidec Corporation to develop energy storage solutions.