Excelsior Energy Capital-backed developer Lydian Energy has brought its 150MW/600MWh Faraday battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Utah County, Utah, US into commercial operation.

Calibrant Energy, an energy-as-a-service platform, has closed a US$145 million debt facility for solar and energy storage projects across several US power markets.

RelyEZ has listed on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, becoming the latest Chinese energy storage system solution provider to list in Hong Kong.

The Western Australian (WA) government has awarded AU$15 million for a relocatable vanadium electrolyte manufacturing facility.

Alectra Energy Solutions and Convergent Energy & Power have completed a 320MWh BESS portfolio at three sites in Ontario.

Battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in Japan by Sumitomo Corporation and Greenvolt provide an interesting snapshot of the country’s development landscape.

Power firms RWE and BNZ have both announced construction on large-scale BESS projects in Italy, all-in-all totalling nearly 500MWh of capacity.

BESS owner-operator NGEN has put its Šibenik project into commercial operation in Croatia, claiming it as the first standalone project to connect at the transmission-level.

A new report prepared by The Brattle Group for The Pew Charitable Trusts finds that removing barriers to distributed energy resources (DERs) could avoid an estimated US$614 billion in US power system costs through 2050.

Renewables developer D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI) and Ford Motor Company’s energy storage subsidiary, Ford Energy, will partner to deploy energy storage in the US.