Hithium has announced its lithium-ion and sodium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS) for supporting data centres, while Storion Energy has secured its first vanadium electrolyte customer.

A flurry of large-scale BESS project news in the US from four major developer-operators, coinciding with the country’s largest clean energy trade show RE+.

Grenergy has secured a senior non-recourse financing agreement worth US$270 million for Phase 6 of its flagship Chilean solar-plus-storage project, Oasis de Atacama.

US sodium-ion battery firm Natron Energy has ceased trading, putting an end to its two domestic gigafactories. The news points to the challenges for battery chemistries hoping to compete with LFP, analysts told Energy-Storage.news.

Two energy storage topics appeared to come up in conversation more than any other at the first day of RE+: US domestic content and the race for energy density increases.

Tech giant Google has announced a partnership with utility SRP to help accelerate the commercialisation of non-lithium long-duration energy storage (LDES) technology.

California community choice aggregator (CCA) Orange County Power Authority (OCPA) and independent power producer NextEra Energy Resources (NEER) have agreed on the terms of a flexible offtake agreement relating to a 115MW/460MWh standalone BESS. 

Fidra Energy has secured £1 billion for the largest BESS in the UK, while EDF and Elements Green have agreed a toll for a 720MWh system.

Major BESS route-to-market (RTM) deals have been announced in Poland, by Greenvolt and Entrix, and in Italy, by Zelestra and BKW.

Chinese lithium-ion OEM Hithium and system integrator BOS Power have signed a supply agreement for 3GWh of BESS deployments in the Nordic region.