Italian startup Energy Dome has launched the first demonstrator project of its carbon dioxide-based energy storage solution, a 4MWh system in Sardinia, Italy, while also revealing Series B plans.

Pacific Green Technologies has appointed principal contractor and supplier for 99.98MW BESS project in Kent, England.

Norway-headquartered renewable energy group Statkraft is not taking the same bullish approach to Germany’s standalone utility-scale battery energy storage market as others, the company’s head of wind & solar Germany Clause Urbanke told Energy-Storage.news.

Westbridge has added another large-scale solar-plus-storage project to its development portfolio in Alberta, Canada.

News in brief from around the world in energy storage.

Nickel-hydrogen-based battery storage company EnerVenue has struck a supply MOU of up to 420MWh while liquid metal battery company Ambri is expanding its new facility in Massachusetts, US.

Modhera is India’s first fully solar powered town, demonstrating that battery storage can enable 24/7 clean energy.

Flow battery companies CMBlue Energy and Redflow, both of whom have developed solutions using alternatives to vanadium, have struck commercial deals in Austria and the US, respectively.

Renewable energy power producer Scatec has signed power purchase agreements (PPA) for three co-located solar and storage projects with 1.1GWh of energy storage in South Africa.

A large-scale solar PV plant with four-hour duration battery storage could be built on underutilised land at a US Armed Forces Base in Hawaii.