Would-be battery manufacturers that could serve the US energy storage industry with domestically made cells are facing a “perfect storm,” Energy-Storage.news has heard.

Developer LC energy has won an irrevocable permit for a 500MW/2,000MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in the Netherlands, one of the largest in the country to do so.

Rimac Energy’s SineStack battery energy storage system (BESS) will deliver ‘zero energy capacity fade’ for the first two years of operation.

Acen Australia’s 600MW Birriwa solar-plus-storage project in New South Wales has been granted federal approval from Tanya Plibersek, Australia’s minister for the environment and water.

The exhibition doors at RE+, formerly Solar Power International and Energy Storage International, opened this morning.

The energy storage arm of vertically integrated solar PV module and tracker manufacturer Trina Solar has completed a portfolio of four US battery projects.

Battery energy storage system (BESS) integrators Fluence and Saft have launched US domestic manufacturing, of modules and BESS containers respectively.

A team of technical staff working for the Idaho Public Utilities Commission (IPUC) has given its recommendation to approve a request from Boise, ID-headquartered utility Idaho Power to develop a 150MW standalone BESS at its Boise Bench substation located in Ada County, Idaho. 

AES has seen a hybrid wind, solar and BESS project in Chile receive an environmental permit, while Oenergy has suffered a setback for a standalone project.

The Australian arm of Spain-based utility and IPP Iberdrola has started building a solar-plus-storage project with a 180MW/260MWh BESS in Queensland.