Puerto Rico Electricity Board (PREB) has approved a plan to accelerate the adoption of battery energy storage system (BESS) technology in the US island territory.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has issued Requests for Information (RFIs) on safety training for energy storage systems, and how to tackle manufacturing design challenges.

Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) has made Canada’s biggest energy storage procurement to date, selecting nearly 1.8GW of projects through a Request for Proposals (RFP).

A cost recovery application for 90MW of battery storage, filed by Barbados Light & Power Company (BLPC), has been only partially approved by the eastern Caribbean island nation’s regulator.

Commissioning has been completed on the first commercial-scale project using Energy Vault’s gravity energy storage technology, while the firm has also secured a 400MWh BESS order for a project in Australia. However, it expects revenues this year to be 70-85% lower than 2023.

Stem Inc has reaffirmed guidance of positive adjusted EBITDA for 2024, despite starting the year with a 62% year-on-year decrease in reported revenues and a fall in bookings.

The state of Queensland, Australia, has committed to investing AU$448 million into battery storage technology at a coal power plant.

Regulatory approval has been granted for what is claimed to be India’s first commercial standalone battery storage project.

Powin has debuted a modular battery storage container platform that enables the system integrator’s utility-scale projects to add 50% more capacity for the same footprint.

Large-scale long-duration energy storage (LDES) projects have been launched near Cyprus and in the UK, using technologies from BaroMar and RheEnergise that are an iteration of established LDES technologies.