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News in brief from around the world in energy storage.

A front-of-meter microgrid combining 2.2MW of solar PV with a 9MWh battery has gone online in Humboldt County, northeast California, which its developers claim is the first of its kind.

Investor-owned utility SDG&E is turning its first lithium iron phosphate-based battery energy storage system (BESS) online today, while Stanford university says it has hit 100% renewable electricity with the offtake from Goldman Sachs’ recently-commissioned Slate solar-plus-storage project.

Goldman Sachs Renewable Power has cut the ribbon on a large-scale solar-plus-storage project in Kings County, California.

D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments has signed a solar and battery energy storage system PPA totalling 200MWac/400MWh with a local utility.

A group representing community energy suppliers in California has made its second long-duration energy storage procurement.

Convergent Energy + Power has celebrated the successful commissioning and start of commercial operations at two battery energy storage system (BESS) projects with a combined capacity of 60MWh in California, US. 

Swell Energy, a US company specialising in virtual power plant (VPP) projects aggregating residential solar PV and battery storage, has launched a distributed energy resources management system (DERMS) software platform.