Energy storage assets are versatile, profitable low carbon resources that need the right conditions and guidance to deliver value from the very start of operation, writes TWAICE.

The Singapore Energy Market Authority (EMA) is figuring out how energy storage technologies can be widely deployed in the country, overcoming constraints such as limited availability of land.

Many ASEAN countries are advancing their adoption of renewable energy with the support of regulators, but the same can’t yet be said for energy storage technologies.

US utility company Xcel Energy has received approval from Minnesota state regulators to build a 1GWh project in the state using Form Energy’s iron-air battery storage technology.

Battery expert and electrification enthusiast Stéphane Melançon at Laserax discusses characteristics of different lithium-ion technologies and how we should think about comparison.

Hydrostor “remains fully committed” to its 4GWh advanced compressed air energy storage (A-CAES) project in California, its president told Energy-Storage.news as it considers alternative locations and delivery dates.

Ormat Technologies has signed a PPA for a California solar-plus-storage plant, shortly after announcing the start of commercial operations at two standalone battery projects.

Projects in Massachusetts have been granted key approvals, ending a situation described as a regulatory “black hole” by one local news outlet.

More similarities exist between the business models of trading energy from batteries and other, more ‘traditional’ types of asset than many people realise.

In June, Japanese renewable energy developer Pacifico Energy made the first trades from BESS assets in the country’s power markets.