The Board of Supervisors at California’s San Diego County voted to establish standards for the siting of battery storage facilities at a meeting held 17 July 2024, following two recent fires.

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.

Renewable energy developer-operator Arevon has entered into a long-term offtake agreement for a 250MW/1,000MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in California with community choice aggregator (CCA) MCE.

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.