The government of Spain is launching €160 million (US$170 million) in grants for energy storage projects, aiming to fund 600MW of projects to go online in 2026.
The government of Chile will launch a bill this year to procure large-scale energy storage systems for commissioning in 2026 totalling US$2 billion of investment, on top of 5GWh already being sought for 2027-28.
The US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has given the green light for construction to begin on a second large-scale battery storage system at Desert Sunlight.
Utility Portland General Electric (PGE) has announced the procurement of a 75MW battery energy storage system (BESS) project in the state of Oregon, building on another 400MW round last month.
The US now has a larger pipeline of lithium-ion manufacturing projects than Europe, according to Clean Energy Associates (CEA) and Benchmark Mineral Intelligence.