Bulgaria is launching a public consultation into a grant auction scheme for renewable energy and up to 350MW of energy storage facilities.

Developer Origis Energy has started building three solar-plus-storage projects in Mississippi, US, with battery energy storage systems (BESS) totalling 150MW supplied by Mitsubishi Power Americas.

Canada-based firm Moment Energy has secured UL 1974 certification for second life energy storage production, the first in North America to do so, the company said.

Four battery energy storage system (BESS) units at a Microsoft data centre in Sweden from Saft have entered operation, while ABB has added ZincFive as a technology supplier for its own UPS solutions.

Jigar Shah, the clean energy industry veteran leading the US Department of Energy Loan Programs Office, speaks with Energy-Storage.news.

Multiple tenders seeking gigawatts of ‘firm and dispatchable’ renewable energy have been launched in India in recent months by state-owned or administered enterprises.

Nine projects pairing solar or wind with energy storage submitted environmental impact assessments in Chile last month.

Northvolt intends to use its vertical European supply chain to differentiate itself in a ‘fiercely competitive’ energy storage market, executives said.

Octopus Investments Australia has bought one of the biggest BESS projects in development in the country, from developer Firm Power.

The US Department of Defense Defense Innovation Unit will try out ‘prototype advanced energy systems’ based around LDES technologies.