Gravity-based energy storage company Energy Vault is to immediately begin deploying a previously-announced 275MWh battery storage system project in California for Wellhead Electric and W Power.

Three Tesla Megapacks have arrived for installation at a power plant in Hungary, the first energy storage project in the country to use the EV giant’s grid-scale product.

Aquila Capital will acquire a pipeline of large-scale battery storage projects in development in Australia, from Spain’s Gransolar Group.

Pattern Energy has achieved financial close on an offshore wind project in northern Japan to include a 100MW battery energy storage system.

Qcells has closed a US$150 million financing deal for its first large-scale standalone battery energy storage system (BESS) project.

US$16.6 million funding has been committed for five long-duration energy storage (LDES) projects in New York by the US state’s government.

Energy stored in batteries is being dispatched in large volumes in California as record-breaking hot weather brings crisis.  

The US Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) has included energy storage into its market portfolio for the first time.

A 200MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) from developer Available Power at a net-zero technology campus in Texas, US, is expected to be online in mid-2024.

The Q3 2022 edition of our journal PV Tech Power is now available to download, featuring in-depth coverage on the rise of solar-plus.