News in brief from around the world in energy storage, this time from the USA.

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

Facilities aimed at making products for the BESS industry announced by Turkey-headquartered Kontrolmatik and Ireland-headquartered Eaton.

e-Zinc, which claims its zinc metal-based battery technology could provide low-cost, long-duration energy storage has raised US$25 million. 

A 214 acre site which will host a battery cell gigafactory in Arizona, US, has been acquired by KORE Power.

Technologies from US V2G solutions company Nuvve and NGK’s sodium sulfur batteries will provide ancillary services and other grid stability applications in Japan. 

New York state is on course to meet its new 2030 target of 6GW of storage deployment, with storage projects in its interconnection queue growing 50% to 12GW.

Lucky Cement, the largest cement producer in Pakistan, is launching a solar-plus-storage project with 5.589MWh of energy storage, which it claims would be the largest in the country.

The global energy storage market will grow to deploy 58GW/178GWh annually by 2030, according to forecasting by BloombergNEF.

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