Sustainable infrastructure investment fund manager SUSI Partners has acquired ready-to-build battery energy storage system projects in Texas.

Anthony Price summarises what took place at this year’s International Flow Batteries Forum Summer Conference in Brussels, Belgium.

A real estate and infrastructure investment arm of BlackRock has committed to investing US$700 million into Akaysha Energy’s pipeline.

Energy storage is ready to become a key pillar of the US energy transition, writes Andy Tang of Wärtsilä Energy.

It’s been a rollercoaster couple of weeks for US clean energy, an industry accustomed to ups and downs in policy and market dynamics.

Tax incentives for energy storage included in the US’ Inflation Reduction Act could mean fewer solar-plus-storage hybrid plants are built.

The Inflation Reduction Act took a significant step forward over the weekend as US vice-president Kamala Harris cast a decisive vote.

Research firm Wood Mackenzie has downgraded its forecasts for US demand for energy storage in 2022 and 2023 by around one-third, in its most recent global outlook report.

South Africa’s primary electricity supplier Eskom has announced details of forthcoming major battery storage deployments.

Startup Spearmint Energy has become the latest developer to acquire a large-scale battery storage project in Texas.