Global battery energy storage system (BESS) integrator Powin Energy is expanding its battery cell and system testing lab in Oregon, US.

Alongside its many benefits, growing deployments of energy storage will pose complex challenges around availability of data and resource planning for grid and distribution network operators.

Norwegian lithium-ion gigafactory startup FREYR Battery has signed a binding agreement with renewable energy group Statkraft covering 2024-31 for its first two gigafactories.

Australian Vanadium has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with developer North Harbour Clean Energy (NHCE).

The Solar Media Podcast returns for a new season.

SolarEdge has begun producing test cells for certification at its newly opened lithium-ion cell gigafactory in South Korea.

Renewable energy developer Kearsarge Energy expects a 20-50% revenue uplift for a solar-plus-storage project in the New England ISO market by using Customized Energy Solutions’ optimisation platform.

Hybrid power plant, built as a ‘non-wires alternative’ to more expensive network upgrades, has gone online in Upstate New York.

Progress is being made at one of Australia’s biggest co-located solar and energy storage projects.

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has approved 497MW of energy storage procured by utility Southern California Edison (SCE) to come online from August 2023 through June 2024.