Scott Murtishaw, executive director at the California Energy Storage Alliance, discusses local opposition, safety misconceptions, and why the state’s containerised projects have proven safe.

Why should people take ESS Inc and its pivot to sodium-ion BESS seriously, having failed to deliver on its iron flow battery promises since going public in 2021? We catch up with new CEO Drew Buckley about how he hopes to turn the ship around.

The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) has released a proposal for the next phase of its Garden State Energy Storage Programme (GSESP) consisting of approximately 150MW of energy storage capacity in the US state.

Battery energy storage degradation guarantees need to evolve as the surrounding market does, writes Faisal Mohd at Envision Energy Australia.

US battery storage developer Key Capture Energy (KCE) has closed a US$300 million financing agreement with British multinational bank Standard Chartered.

Orchestrating battery storage components, containers, systems and portfolios is key to successful operation, says Ryan Franks.

In this US news roundup, BESS projects in California, Arizona, and Nevada advance from EDP Renewables, Tucson Electric Power, and EDF Power Solutions North America.

Two South Korean-headquartered companies, LG Energy Solution and DeltaX are establishing battery cell factories in the US.

Energy-Storage.news speaks with Raafe Khan, head of energy storage at Camelot Energy Group, ahead of the upcoming Battery Asset Management Summit (BAMS) USA in Garden Grove, California.

Utility Appalachian Power (APCo) is seeking up to 800MW total of energy storage resources via two new requests for proposals (RFPs) in Virginia, US.