Pacific Green has followed its ramp up of activities in the UK with moves to secure land for a pipeline of projects in Australia.

Energy-Storage.news caught up with Yann Brandt, chief commercial officer (CCO) at FlexGen, the US system integrator with a strong focus on software through its Hybrid OS controls platform.

Octopus Investments Australia has bought one of the biggest BESS projects in development in the country, from developer Firm Power.

Sodium-ion battery technology firm Peak Energy has emerged from stealth, with US$10 million in funding and a management team comprising ex-Northvolt, Tesla, Enovix and SunPower executives.

The US Department of Defense Defense Innovation Unit will try out ‘prototype advanced energy systems’ based around LDES technologies.

Tucson Electric Power, a utility company in the US state of Arizona, plans to own and operate a 200MW/800MWh battery storage system.

A renewable energy subsidiary of the Philippine conglomerate Lopez Group has contracted for the deployment of battery energy storage system (BESS) resources at three geothermal sites.

Round-trip efficiency of alternative storage technologies is the standout metric for assessing their potential versus lithium-ion.

US utility company Georgia Power is gauging interest from providers of potential capacity resources including standalone energy storage, hybrid generation-plus-storage and thermal power plants.

Dr Alastair Martin of Flexitricity sheds light on negative energy pricing and the opportunity it represents for batteries.