Peak Energy, a startup claiming to be the ‘first American venture to advance globally proven sodium-ion battery systems,’ has raised US$55 million in a Series A funding round.

Developer Harmony Energy is set to build a 100MW/200MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project in France, the country’s largest.

Project owners Quinbrook and Primergy have put their 1.4GWh Gemini solar-plus-storage project in Nevada online, claiming it is the largest such project in the US.

Tesla has agreed to supply US solar PV and energy storage developer Intersect Power with 15.3GWh of its Megapack battery storage solution.

Rounding up a busy week’s worth of energy storage activity from the UK market, as reported by our colleagues at Solar Power Portal.

EDP Renewables North America has inaugurated the 200MW/40MW Scarlet I solar-plus-storage project in Fresno County, California.

US solar PV and energy storage project developer Intersect Power has closed two financing deals worth US$837 million for three battery energy storage system (BESS) projects.

Renewables developer rPlus Energies has secured more than US$1 billion for a 400MW solar-plus-storage project In Utah, US.

The Spanish government has progressed plans to launch a competitive auction for renewable generation and energy storage in two regions where coal plants have been retired, totalling 829MW of capacity.

NHOA Energy has launched construction on a battery energy storage system (BESS) project for independent power producer (IPP) ERG in Sicily, Italy.