Energy-storage.news catches up with Thomas Cornell, Senior VP Energy Storage Solutions at Mitsubishi Power Americas about the company’s energy storage market activity, strategy and future plans.

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

Philippines’ investor-owned utility AboitizPower and Norwegian renewables group Scatec have signed a EPC agreement with Hitachi Energy for it to build a 20MW/20MWh battery storage system, set to go online in 2024.

Energy storage developer Jupiter Power has turned a 200MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Texas online.

Listed company Shenzhen CLOU Electronics says it has secured a contract with a “famous American energy company” to supply an energy storage system totalling 485MWh in South America.

Investor-owned utility SDG&E is turning its first lithium iron phosphate-based battery energy storage system (BESS) online today, while Stanford university says it has hit 100% renewable electricity with the offtake from Goldman Sachs’ recently-commissioned Slate solar-plus-storage project.

Californian investor-owned utility San Diego Gas & Electric has ordered a 10MW, six-hour battery energy storage system (BESS), Emerald, from Mitsubishi Power.

Construction has started on what will be the largest battery storage project in Belgium at 25MW/100MWh when completed later this year.

DEPCOM Power has 650MWh of battery energy storage system projects in execution.

Saft has won a turnkey contract for a 7MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in a Norwegian archipelago which it claims is the largest in the Arctic.