A solicitation for large-scale energy storage could be hosted in about a year’s time as part of the push towards New York achieving its target of deploying 6GW of energy storage on the grid by 2030.

Supply chain constraints impacting the energy storage industry have come at a “critical” stage for the sector’s development, a BloombergNEF analyst has said.

Hecate Grid has progressed a 300MW/1,200MWh battery storage project in California, US, signing off-take contracts for its stored energy and gaining a key local authority approval.

UK-based Habitat Energy has expanded into the US power market with plans to optimise a portfolio of 60MW of BESS assets.

Fire testing of Fluence’s battery storage solution showed that thermal runaway in one ‘Cube’ would not spread fire to surrounding units.

Ambri system commissioned at Microsoft data centre reduces the use of fossil fuels and enables ancillary service market participation.

Energy storage industry figures were among attendees at a White House celebration event for the Inflation Reduction Act.

Goldman Sachs and Cleanhill Partners have swooped to acquire a majority stake in EPC Power, a US manufacturer of power conversion systems.

Canadian Solar has launched a utility-scale energy storage product and announced a battery manufacturing capacity target of 10GWh by end-2023, up from 2.5GWh today.

Microsoft, Meta, Fluence and other energy storage players have founded a consortium to assess the technology’s emissions reductions.