NextEra’s eight-hour energy storage project in California will use lithium-ion technology, but ‘battery chemistry did not play a major role in project evaluation’, offtaker Clean Power Alliance told Energy-Storage.news.

News in brief from around the word in energy storage with another edition of the Energy-Storage.news roundup.

California utility Clean Power Alliance has inked a 15-year PPA with NextEra Energy Resources for an eight-hour duration energy storage project.

The new investment tax credit (ITC) for standalone energy storage means some US developers are opting to overbuild systems instead of augmenting them further down the line.

A 250MW/1,000MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Arizona will soon break ground, utility SRP and developer Plus Power said.

Long-duration energy storage (LDES) firm e-Zinc is targeting a gigafactory in the US by 2025 and is considering adjusting its planned project with Toyota Tsusho, it told Energy-Storage.news.

Legislation could soon be introduced in the US state of Illinois that aims to promote energy storage on the grid.

Elcora is developing a vanadium pentoxide plant in Morocco to complement raw materials extraction.

Switch Power has commissioned five battery storage projects in Ontario, Canada.

Some 2.5-3.6GW of energy storage could be cost-effectively deployed by 2033 to cut emissions and lower energy costs in the US state of Maryland, American Clean Power (ACP) said.