The Energy Research and Development Division of the California Energy Commission (CEC) has issued a report highlighting the importance of energy storage facilities with a discharge duration of eight hours or more in order for the Golden State to reach its target of a zero-carbon electricity grid by 2045. 

After failing to obtain local approval for the construction of a 250MW/1,000MWh standalone BESS, Engie is pursuing state approval via the CEC.

NTPC, India’s biggest electric power utility with a 76GW generation fleet, has opened a tender for a long-duration energy storage (LDES) flow battery project.

Zinc-bromine flow battery technology company Redflow has received a grant award and notice-to-proceed (NTP) for two projects in California, US, totalling 21.6MWh.

Iron-air battery technology firm Form Energy has won a US$30 million grant for a new 5MW/500MWh energy storage project in California.

The California Energy Commission (CEC) has approved the participation of aggregated home batteries in demand response programme.

California Energy Commission approved funding for solar-plus-storage microgrid project which will include Invinity’s largest flow battery to date.

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

Advanced compressed air energy storage (A-CAES) company Hydrostor has made its second application to license a gigawatt-hour scale project as a power plant with the California Energy Commission (CEC).