In Texas, Vitis Energy announces financial close of the Apache Hill Energy Centre while Enertis Applus+ provides independent engineering services for Excelsior Energy Capital.

Idaho Power’s updated integrated resource plan adds more solar, wind and energy storage than gas generation, while Public Service Company of New Mexico gets 450MW of solar and storage added to its resource application.

Evolving market dynamics in ERCOT and CAISO, the two leading US electricity markets for battery storage, call for smart optimisation strategies, write Ali Karimian and Alden Phinney of GridBeyond.

PowerChina has begun construction on what is claimed to be the world’s largest generation-side electrochemical energy storage project.

FlexGen Power Systems (FlexGen) has bid to take over rival US system integrator Powin during the latter’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.

OptiGrid has partnered with Hepburn Energy to optimise a BESS at the 4.1MW Hepburn Wind Project in Victoria, Australia, using AI.

Oregon’s Marion County has become the latest jurisdiction in the US to introduce a moratorium on utility-scale battery storage.

Utility company Ameren Missouri has filed an application with the Missouri public service commission (PSC) to construct a natural gas and battery storage facility in the state.

Ex-Tesla CTO’s battery recycling and materials company Redwood Materials has launched a new business unit to repurpose second-life EV batteries for energy storage.

Utility Ignitis Group has taken a final investment decision (FID) on three large-scale battery storage projects in Lithuania.