US utility company Salt River Project (SRP) has launched a request for proposals for non-lithium, long-duration energy storage (LDES) demonstration projects, targeting wider deployment during the early 2030s.

Blackstone portfolio company Aypa Power has secured an energy storage service agreement (ESSA) with community electricity provider Ava Community Energy (Ava).

Primergy has signed a “long-term” power purchase agreement (PPA) with California community energy supplier San Diego Community Power (SDCP).

We catch up with the president of Canada-headquartered Hydrostor, Jon Norman, about the firm’s advanced compressed air energy storage (A-CAES) tech, current projects, future plans and being a developer versus system integrator.

The Edwards & Sanborn solar-plus-storage project in California is now fully online, with 875MWdc of solar PV and 3,287MWh of battery energy storage system (BESS) capacity, the world’s largest.

News in brief from around the world in energy storage, featuring Ormat Technologies, Wärtsilä and Canadian Solar.

Developer esVolta has secured tax equity financing for a 30MW/60MWh BESS in California while Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure has signed PPAs for two projects with one of the state’s utilities.

California has passed 5GW of grid-scale battery storage energy storage (BESS) projects, grid operator CAISO has revealed.

Ormat Technologies has signed a PPA for a California solar-plus-storage plant, shortly after announcing the start of commercial operations at two standalone battery projects.