California utilities CPA and SCE have issued requests for microgrid and power resiliency projects using energy storage as the state continues to adapt to an increased risk of power shutoffs.

The renewables arm of Italy-based power company Enel is seeking approval to add a 38MWh battery storage system to an existing 42.25MW solar PV plant in Spain.

The European Union (EU) has unveiled its plans for its own Inflation Reduction Act-style support package, the Green Deal Industrial Plan, for clean energy technologies including energy storage.

In a double-whammy of NMC battery news, SolarEdge has started shipping cells from its new South Korea gigafactory while Lechlanché has claimed a breakthrough in environmentally-friendly cell production.

A state-owned solar-plus-storage project being developed in Mexico marks a shift in government thinking on energy storage, a local battery storage firm told Energy-Storage.news.

The largest lithium-ion battery storage system in Bolivia is nearing completion at a co-located solar PV site, with project partners including Jinko, SMA and battery storage provider Cegasa.

The vanadium flow battery sector received a boost this week with news of a rental partnership between Invinity and Dawsongroup plc, a new electrolyte plant in Germany and a whitepaper around the technology’s environmental impact.

Independent power producer Clearway Energy Group has brought a 36MW solar PV plus 144MWh battery energy storage system project online in O’ahu, Hawaii, delivered by energy technology firm Wärtsilä.

A pair of 20.7MW battery energy storage systems have been added to the electricity grid in Bavaria, Germany, by Austria-based utility Verbund and developers ECO STOR and Kyon Energy.

A handful of companies are trying to get in early and design and deploy ‘second life’ energy storage units using EV batteries ahead of an expected boom in supply in the second half of the 2020s.