London-listed energy storage investor Gore Street Capital CEO Alex O’Cinneide discussed its fund’s recent expansion outside UK/Ireland and which markets are most of interest, in an interview with Energy-storage.news.

The US Department of Energy Loan Programs Office has committed US$504 million to a 300GWh hydrogen storage project in Utah and another US$107 million to a graphite facility in Louisiana.

Puerto Rico’s energy regulator released draft Request for Proposals for a minimum of 500MW of renewables and 250MW of energy storage.

Debt and equity financing worth US$1.9 billion has been closed for one of the US’ largest solar-plus-storage power plants to date.

Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer unveiled a roadmap to achieving environmental goals, including energy storage deployment targets.

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has approved new projects by the state’s three investor-owned utilities, including nine battery energy storage system (BESS) facilities proposed by PG&E totalling 1.6GW/6.4GWh.

Li-Cycle has been selected as preferred battery recycling partner to LG Chem and LG Energy Solution for their North America operations.

New York Power Authority has started a process of adapting fossil fuel peaker plant sites to host battery storage which could replace them. 

US national energy laboratory Berkeley Lab has released its top 10 findings from a research programme into renewable projects that pair generation with energy storage, so-called hybrid projects.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has launched the construction of a research facility for exploring new energy storage technologies.