Why should people take ESS Inc and its pivot to sodium-ion BESS seriously, having failed to deliver on its iron flow battery promises since going public in 2021? We catch up with new CEO Drew Buckley about how he hopes to turn the ship around.

Orchestrating battery storage components, containers, systems and portfolios is key to successful operation, says Ryan Franks.

Danske Commodities will optimise a BESS project that developer-operator BeGreen has added to a solar PV plant in Denmark, which the trading house already operates for BeGreen. 

In this US news roundup, BESS projects in California, Arizona, and Nevada advance from EDP Renewables, Tucson Electric Power, and EDF Power Solutions North America.

Two South Korean-headquartered companies, LG Energy Solution and DeltaX are establishing battery cell factories in the US.

Windlab and Squadron Energy have referred a 500MW BESS at the Bungaban solar-plus-storage project in Queensland for approval.

APA Group has taken a final investment decision to construct, own and operate the 104MWh Sybella Creek solar-plus-storage site in Australia.

Utility Appalachian Power (APCo) is seeking up to 800MW total of energy storage resources via two new requests for proposals (RFPs) in Virginia, US.

Enel Green Power, part of the Italy-based power group Enel, has launched construction on another large-scale BESS in Chile. 

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has closed its Growth Markets Fund II (GMF II) at around US$3 billion.