Google hails project to retrofit data centre with battery storage as a step towards rolling out similar solutions across global fleet.

News in brief from around the world in energy storage, this time from the USA.

Compressed air long-duration energy storage solution provider Hydrostor has received an investment commitment of US$25 million from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.

A region of southern California desert has the potential to become the hub of a “world-class lithium industry”.

CATL has sold 900MWh of battery energy storage system (BESS) equipment to US independent power producer (IPP) Broad Reach Power. 

Lithium-ion will struggle to compete at long durations and its price declines cannot continue forever, said Alan Greenshields, Director EMEA for iron electrolyte flow battery supplier ESS Inc, in a rebuttal to an earlier Energy-storage.news article on the topic.

A 10MW/50MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) spread across two substations in Slovenia has started a trial and testing period.

Neoen has been contracted by AGL to provide a “virtual” charge or discharge of a battery system in Australia. 

Facilities aimed at making products for the BESS industry announced by Turkey-headquartered Kontrolmatik and Ireland-headquartered Eaton.

Tesla’s Megapack as well as the company’s solar PV will power a Bitcoin mining facility in a proof of concept (POC) project in the US.