News in brief, from another busy week for our colleagues reporting on the UK battery storage market at Solar Power Portal.

A pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) plant with a capacity of 20GWh in Valais, Switzerland, will begin operations on Friday, 1 July.

Energy Dome, an Italy-based company which has developed a novel CO2-based long-duration energy storage system, has closed an US$11 million bridge funding round.

Matthew Lumsden, CEO Connected Energy, talks us through scaling up the business in preparation for an EV boom from 2025 onwards.

The government of Western Australia has begun a drive to deploy at least 1,000 renewable energy off-grid power systems.

LG will use an energy management system developed by Fractal EMS for commercial and industrial energy storage systems in the US market.

Ambri has received an order in South Africa for a 300MW energy storage system based on its proprietary liquid metal battery technology.

RWE has switched on its Hickory Park project combining 195.5MW of solar PV with 40MW/80MWh of battery storage in Georgia, US.

Carbon-free energy deals signed by Google and a California community energy group could be a widely replicable model.

Oil and gas major Chevron has pulled out of plans to acquire an equity interest in ACES Delta, the 300GWh green hydrogen energy storage project in Utah, it confirmed to Energy-Storage.news.