Wärtsilä has carried out more large-scale fire tests on its battery storage units, which the system integrator claimed closely resemble real-life ‘worst-case scenario’ conditions.
Li-Cycle has finalised a loan of nearly half a million dollars to with the DOE’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) scale up its battery recycling facilities in the US, with the near-term direction of the LPO under a Trump administration likely to change.
NYSE-listed battery startup Freyr has pivoted strategy and acquired a 5GW solar module facility in Texas, US, from Chinese firm Trina Solar, the same day that Donald Trump was declared to have won the presidential election (6 November).
Aypa Power has negotiated two resource adequacy agreements with Pacific Gas & Electric covering 500MW/2,000MWh of energy storage from two standalone BESS projects in the Californian cities of Industry and Irwindale.
The energy storage industry is seeing a significant shift “toward deeper integration of battery analytics into daily operations,” the CEO of ACCURE has said.
The City of Green Bay in Wisconsin, US, has granted a Conditional Use Permit for a large-scale battery storage project proposed by a subsidiary of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP).
Vistra Energy has decided to pursue approval to construct a 600MW/2,400MWh BESS at the site of a retired power plant in the City of Morro Bay via the California Energy Commission (CEC).
