Wisconsin investor-owned utilities Madison Gas and Electric (MGE) and WEC Energy have received regulatory approval to buy a 200MW solar and 110MW battery energy storage system (BESS) in Kenosha County.

Norwegian lithium-ion gigafactory startup FREYR Battery could easily dedicate half of its 2030 production capacity target of 100 GWh to energy storage and is also launching a system integrator play, CEO Tom Jensen tells Energy-Storage.news in an interview.

NYSE-listed iron flow battery group ESS Inc is expanding into Europe with its first deployments on the continent later this year.

The UK energy markets’s appetite for battery energy storage systems has grown and grown.

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced financial support for four technology sector manufacturing projects, including a vanadium processing plant.

Australian pension fund Hostplus will invest in a JV to build a 1.5GW renewable energy park.

Three solar power plant projects in development in Alberta will add nearly 300MW of battery storage to the province’s grid.

Gore Street has acquired a portfolio of eight energy storage assets in Texas.

Goldman Sachs Renewable Power has cut the ribbon on a large-scale solar-plus-storage project in Kings County, California.

Energy-storage.news speaks with the CEO of American Battery Factory, which seeks to establish a network of LFP gigafactories.