Standalone storage, demand from commercial and industrial (C&I) customers and new types of grid services will increasingly help drive growth in energy storage in the coming years, but the future mix between battery-based and alternative storage types is still unclear.

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. 

Power company TransAlta has made an application to regulators seeking approval of a large-scale battery storage system in Alberta, Canada, which will be charged from hydroelectric generation. 

Hydrostor CEO Curtis VanWalleghem talks advanced compressed air energy storage and how Goldman Sachs Asset Management came to invest US$250m in his company.

News in brief from around the world in energy storage.

California’s inclusion of US$380 million financial support for long-duration energy storage projects could “activate” up to 20 projects in the US state, which has a “tremendous need” for energy storage. 

US$100 million in financing has been secured for US community solar, battery storage and hybrid solar-plus-storage projects by developer Nexus Renewables.

The asset management group of investment banking firm Goldman Sachs is making a US$250 million investment into advanced compressed air energy storage (A-CAES) company Hydrostor.

Advanced compressed air energy storage (A-CAES) company Hydrostor has made its second application to license a gigawatt-hour scale project as a power plant with the California Energy Commission (CEC).