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ROUNDUP: VPPs and 50MWh BESS financed in California, microgrids in Nigeria, Nissan second life project

July 1, 2022
News in brief from around the world in Energy Storage.
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ArcLight: Legacy thermal plant sites ‘make excellent potential locations for battery projects’

June 30, 2022
ArcLight views its portfolio of existing thermal power plant assets as “excellent potential locations for battery projects”.
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Storage-enabled microgrid projects proliferate in California

June 27, 2022
Investor-owned utility SDG&E and the City of San Diego are launching a dozen microgrid projects with energy storage across San Diego, California, following similar announcements elsewhere in the state.
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TPG’s Matrix Renewables secures US$92 million for co-located 80MWh storage in California

June 23, 2022
Matrix Renewables, the platform backed by private equity firm TPG, has secured tax equity financing of US$92 million for two solar-plus-storage projects in California with 80MWh of energy storage.
Battery storage and solar array at Google's Saint-Ghislain data centre complex in Belgium. Image: Google / Centrica Business Solutions.

Google’s 24/7 carbon-free energy deal for its California offices ‘could be replicable model’

June 23, 2022
Carbon-free energy deals signed by Google and a California community energy group could be a widely replicable model.
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ROUNDUP: Ormat launches 20MWh BESS, Lumin/Leap launch demand response for homes in California, Dubai R&D lab’s flow battery patent

June 20, 2022
News in brief from around the world in energy storage.
Two of Recurrent Energy's PV projects in Southern California. Image: Recurrent Energy.

‘Solar-plus-storage potential everywhere in the US’: Recurrent Energy interview

June 14, 2022
Around 60% of new solar projects planned in US utility service areas are hybrid resources paired with storage. Recurrent Energy’s Lucas Moller explains the appeal.
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First 100% renewable multi-customer microgrid online in California

June 10, 2022
A front-of-meter microgrid combining 2.2MW of solar PV with a 9MWh battery has gone online in Humboldt County, northeast California, which its developers claim is the first of its kind.
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PG&E reveals storage plans in climate strategy report, cuts ribbon on Elkhorn BESS

June 10, 2022
Californian investor-owned utility (IOU) PG&E has revealed its energy storage plans in a Climate Strategy Report and cut the ribbon on the 182.5MW Elkhorn battery energy storage system (BESS).
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Non-vanadium flow battery companies strike deals in Austria and US

June 6, 2022
Flow battery companies CMBlue Energy and Redflow, both of whom have developed solutions using alternatives to vanadium, have struck commercial deals in Austria and the US, respectively.

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