US battery energy storage system (BESS) integrator Jupiter Power has turned its second 200MWh BESS online in Texas, bringing its total capacity in the state’s market to 450MWh.

Energy storage can enhance the reliability and lower the costs of operating and maintaining Ontario’s electricity distribution network.

Investor-owned utility SDG&E and the City of San Diego are launching a dozen microgrid projects with energy storage across San Diego, California, following similar announcements elsewhere in the state.

LG will use an energy management system developed by Fractal EMS for commercial and industrial energy storage systems in the US market.

RWE has switched on its Hickory Park project combining 195.5MW of solar PV with 40MW/80MWh of battery storage in Georgia, US.

Approval has been granted for construction of a large-scale BESS at the site of an existing fossil fuel power plant in New York.

Matrix Renewables, the platform backed by private equity firm TPG, has secured tax equity financing of US$92 million for two solar-plus-storage projects in California with 80MWh of energy storage.

Carbon-free energy deals signed by Google and a California community energy group could be a widely replicable model.

Significant policy support for the long duration energy storage (LDES) sector may be needed until 2030-35 when the market matures, says a new LDES Council policy toolbox report.

Lithium-ion battery pack manufacturer Dragonfly Energy expects revenues to increase 47% this year, during which it will complete a Nasdaq listing through a SPAC merger, before doubling in 2023.