US$5 million will be made available for long-duration energy storage (LDES) projects via a competitive solicitation run by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA).

Developer Ethical Power has received planning consent for a 65MW solar-plus-storage project near Christchurch, New Zealand.

Liquid air energy storage firm Highview Power has raised £300 million (US$384 million) from the UK Infrastructure Bank and utility Centrica to immediately start building its first large-scale project.

TCC Group Holdings, the majority owner of New HOrizons Ahead (NHOA), intends to increase its holding and take the company private, delisting it from the Euronext Paris exchange.  

An estimated 80,000 professionals from the solar PV, energy storage and electric mobility sectors converge in Munich, Germany, each year.

BHE Renewables (BHER) has secured Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) with California community electricity provider Clean Power Alliance (CPA) relating to two of the developer’s hybrid solar-plus-storage projects in Kern County, California.

Norway-headquartered renewable energy company Scatec will add 28.6MW of solar PV and 19.2MWh of battery energy storage systems (BESS) to projects in Cameroon, via a local subsidiary.

We hear from consultancy AFRY about how energy storage can reduce market risks for CfD-winning projects in the UK, now and in future, as Ørsted launches a BESS at a major wind farm project with a CfD.

Europe’s annual battery storage deployments doubled in 2023, but the pace of adoption is still much slower than required, according to SolarPower Europe.

One of the world’s most widely deployed non-lithium electrochemical energy storage technologies has received an upgrade, with the launch of NGK and BASF Stationary Energy Storage’s the NAS MODEL L24.