The Department of Electricity and Energy of South Africa has announced the successful bidders for the second round of its Battery Energy Storage Independent Power Producers Procurement Programme (BESIPPPP).

Developer AMEA Power will collaborate with Trinasolar and Energy China ZTPC to install battery storage at a 500MW solar PV plant in Egypt, Africa.

Another year draws to a close, allowing us to reflect on the fantastic energy storage content from Solar Media’s journal PV Tech Power.

Another edition of news in brief, this time from regulators in the US states of Connecticut and Oregon and flow battery maker Quino Energy.

Eos Energy Enterprises has signed a joint development agreement (JDA) with FlexGen Power Systems to develop a fully integrated battery energy storage system (BESS) solution using Eos’ zinc batteries and Flexgen’s Energy Management System (EMS).

Residents in Van Zandt County, Texas, have filed a lawsuit seeking damages and an injunction over the construction of a lithium-ion BESS.

LG ES Vertech has signed a 7.5GWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project deal with Excelsior Energy Capital.

Peak Energy president and CCO Cameron Dales speaks with Energy-Storage.news about the US startup’s plans for scaling sodium-ion battery storage and cell manufacturing, sodium-ion’s advantages, and the bankability of the technology.

Lithium-sulfur battery and supermaterials firm Lyten is seeking a US$650 million loan from the US import-export bank EXIM to scale up manufacturing and meet BESS orders from the Caribbean region.

Developer Upstream Energy has negotiated a resource adequacy (RA) agreement with California community choice aggregator (CCA) Clean Power Alliance (CPA) associated with the developer’s standalone Olinda BESS project located in Los Angeles County, California.