Progress on another US Department of Energy (DOE) loan for the battery sector has been announced, this time by NeoVolta, the third in the space of a week since the US election.
A double-header of tax equity news from the California BESS market, with IPPs Ormat Technologies and esVolta both completing deals for grid-scale projects in the state.
IPP Innergex and system integrator Prevalon Energy have agreed to nearly double the capacity of BESS capacity at two sites in Chile with existing operational facilities.
Industry sources including ex-Fluence executives discuss what the next era for the rapidly-evolving BESS technology landscape looks like, including the move to AC blocks and changing battery cell sizes.
Developer Rolwind has won a favourable environmental impact assessment (EIA) result for a 200MW/800MWh BESS in Spain, the first standalone one to do so and the largest in the country, it claimed.
A group of investors and utilities from Switzerland and Germany have inaugurated a 100MW/200MWh BESS project in Bavaria, Germany, deployed by Fluence – concurrent with separate announcements from S4 Energy and EnBW.
Li-Cycle has finalised a loan of nearly half a million dollars to with the DOE’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) scale up its battery recycling facilities in the US, with the near-term direction of the LPO under a Trump administration likely to change.
