State-owned Irish electric utility ESB has opened a 19MW/38MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Aghada, County Cork, provided by system integrator Fluence. 

Developers of two large-scale battery projects in Massachusetts have appeared before the public at Energy Facilities Siting Board hearings.

Hydrostor waits to hear if one of its proposed large-scale projects in California will get approved to supply electricity.

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.

We caught up with CSA Group’s Scott Daniels (SD), head of energy and power and Michael Becker (MB), technical specialist – energy storage, to discuss battery energy storage safety, standards and performance testing.

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.

The sale of Dynapower by private equity firm Pfingsten to industrial sensor manufacturer Sensata Technologies has been completed.