Renewable developer Scatec and energy group EDF have signed a binding agreement with the government of Malawi to develop a hydropower plant with 309MW/7,000MWh of pumped hydro energy storage.

World Energy Storage Day Chair Dr Rahul Walawalkar on this year’s virtual global conference.

Luna Battery Storage, a 100MW/400MWh BESS project in California, is now online and serving community choice aggregator Clean Power Alliance.

Renewable energy company Arevon has secured a US$400 million loan facility from two banks for its solar and energy storage pipeline in the Midwest, Southeast and California.

VFlowTech, a Singapore-based vanadium redox flow battery manufacturer, has signed an MoU with global liquid storage logistics group Advario.

Spanish multinational Naturgy has bought a large-scale hybrid solar-plus-storage project in development in Australia.

Equinor has led an investment round for a flow battery manufacturer and Uniper will carry out a megawatt-scale flow battery pilot project.

Global battery energy storage system integrator Fluence has revealed it is appointing a new CFO, direct from home solar and storage company SunPower, a day before its CEO change becomes effective.

Malaysia-based Reservoir Link has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with an unnamed US-based ‘Iron Flow Long Duration Energy Storage provider’, while ESS Inc tells Energy-Storage.news it is ‘actively exploring’ opportunities in Reservoir Link’s markets.

Expressions of Interest have been invited for so-called ‘round-the-clock’ renewable energy projects in India by NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam.