Three US utilities, Ameren Missouri, DTE Energy in Michigan, and Black Hills Energy in Colorado have recently submitted IRPs with highlighted BESS project additions.

IPP Northland Power has announced that its 80MW/160MWh Jurassic energy storage project in Cypress County, Alberta, CA, has achieved commercial operations.

Gotion and Volkswagen AG will establish three joint ventures to manufacture lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries and battery materials in Valencia (Spain), Surany (Slovakia), and Kenitra (Morocco).

Spain’s recent proposal for data centres could be the catalyst the country’s energy storage market has been waiting for, argues Ignacio López Martín from developer Capflex Energía.

Gotion High-Tech has been named as the BESS supplier for three projects totalling 6GWh awarded to an ACWA Power consortium in Saudi Arabia.

There is no shortage of capital to invest, but energy storage developers in the Middle East face familiar questions as the market takes shape.

In this news roundup, Metlen inaugurates a 75MWh BESS in Italy, PNE and Enercon develop a wind and storage project in Germany, and Mirova invests €65 million in Nordic BESS from Ingrid Capacity.

Olga Sypula, VP and regional director for Central Europe at developer and IPP European Energy, shares her views on the key trends, opportunities and challenges across the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) energy storage market.

Gamuda Australia and Yanara have signed the EPC contract for Stage 1 of the Mortlake Energy Hub (MEH-1) in western Victoria.

EORA Energy has formed a JV with Tulla Group to develop integrated energy infrastructure for mining operations, data centres and more.