Developer Terra-Gen has closed US$969 million in project financing for the second phase of Edwards Sanborn Solar-plus-Storage facility in California, which will bring it to 3,291MWh of energy storage capacity.

Australian mining group BHP will use a 45MW solar, 35MW battery energy storage system from Alinta Energy to halve emissions at its WA Iron Ore port facilities at Port Headland by end-2024.

Gravity-based energy storage company Energy Vault has been issued a mandate for an initial 2GWh of its proprietary solution at net-zero industrial parks in China.

Hecate Grid has progressed a 300MW/1,200MWh battery storage project in California, US, signing off-take contracts for its stored energy and gaining a key local authority approval.

UK-based Habitat Energy has expanded into the US power market with plans to optimise a portfolio of 60MW of BESS assets.

Germany’s early lead among Europe’s battery storage adopters is gone, but some see change coming on the horizon, Cameron Murray writes.

Goldman Sachs and Cleanhill Partners have swooped to acquire a majority stake in EPC Power, a US manufacturer of power conversion systems.

Canadian Solar has launched a utility-scale energy storage product and announced a battery manufacturing capacity target of 10GWh by end-2023, up from 2.5GWh today.

Eos Energy Enterprises has progressed to the due diligence stage in its application for a share of US$2.5 billion in US government loans.

Qcells has followed up the start of construction on its first-ever standalone BESS project with the announcement of three more projects.