Mitsubishi Power Americas has selected software and engineering firm Emerson Electric to automate the ACES Delta project in Utah, billed as the world’s biggest green hydrogen project development.

Vanadium redox flow battery company CellCube and power electronics company G&W Electric have launched a microgrid solution for the US market, starting with a project at the latter’s HQ in Illinois, US.

System integrator Powin Energy has raised US$135 million from its existing shareholders Trilantic and Energy Impact Partners and new investor GIC, just weeks after a Samsung subsidiary took a minority stake.

Lithium-ion gigafactory company Northvolt’s energy storage system (ESS) assembly factory in Poland has won a share of €1.8 billion (US$1.8 billion) in EU grant funding, along with a battery recycling plant in north France.

The CEOs of Fluence, Gore Street, Gresham House and six others have penned an open letter calling on policy makers in Europe to set adequate targets and policy frameworks for the deployment of energy storage.

Energy asset developer Rise Light & Power will redevelop its 2,480MW Ravenswood Generating Station – New York City’s biggest power plant – as a new renewable energy hub including on-site energy storage.

Mobile battery storage rental company Greener Power Solutions has raised €45 million (US$45 million) from DIF Capital Partners.

Global system integrator Fluence and utility Münch Energie are developing a solar-plus-storage plant with 34MWh of storage in Merseburg, Germany.

Battery energy storage systems (BESS) cost base has increased 25% in the past year, the head of storage for global energy technology group Wärtsilä told Energy-Storage.news.

Grid operators in the Netherlands are trialling the potential of large battery storage to relieve bottlenecks in the grid.