This Friday Briefing looks at the IEA’s recognition that long-duration energy storage will be essential to global decarbonisation and asks what it might take for that message to translate into immediate action.
Gas and geothermal plant developer and operator Calpine Corporation has closed a syndicated financing for what could be one of the largest battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in the US.
Energy storage developer NineDot Energy has secured financing from investors including Manulife Investment Management to progress its pipeline of New York projects.
BESS developer and operator Plus Power has brought a 185MW/565MWh project online in Hawaii, US, which it claimed is the “most advanced grid-scale BESS in the world”.
Developers in the US plan to install 15GW of new utility-scale battery storage, adding to about 16GW of storage installed so far, according to government statistics.
Utility New York Power Authority (NYPA) is seeking to collaborate with renewable energy and energy storage developers and operators, as part of the state’s push to deploy more clean energy resources.
Energy-Storage.news learns about New York City’s first-ever vehicle-to-grid (V2G) pilot project, which is entering a second stage after a successful start to its operational life.
China-headquartered energy storage system integrator and manufacturer CL Energy Storage Corporation (CLOU) has won an order in the US for “approximately” 480MWh of battery storage equipment.
Another utility agreement has been signed by Form Energy, the US startup which claims its iron-air battery can provide sufficient stored energy to ride through multiple days of low solar or wind production.
