Vehicle-to-grid solutions provider Nuvve, along with a host of other groups, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the US Department of Energy to accelerate the commercialisation of V2G and other vehicle-grid integration technologies.

Amazon has added 37 new renewable energy projects to its portfolio, including two solar-plus-storage plants. 

Google hails project to retrofit data centre with battery storage as a step towards rolling out similar solutions across global fleet.

Battery storage companies raised US$17 billion in corporate funding in 2021 but have raised US$12.9 billion already this year. 

Construction work has started on a 30MWh pumped hydro storage project in Western Australia.

A region of southern California desert has the potential to become the hub of a “world-class lithium industry”.

There was almost 1TW of renewable energy capacity and an estimated 427GW of storage active in US interconnection queues at the end of 2021.

Energy storage poised for “rapid growth” in US, with between 130GW to 680GW diurnal storage capable of integrating 80% share of renewables by 2050.

President Joe Biden’s recent invocation of the Defense Production Act of 1950 could help solve supply chain issues, but only over the longer term. 

Battery energy storage is load shifting up to 6GWh a day on the California ISO (CAISO) grid, storage sector manager Gabe Murtaugh told Energy-storage.news, as the operator considers a market design change linked to batteries’ state of charge (SoC).