News in brief from around the world in Energy Storage.

ArcLight views its portfolio of existing thermal power plant assets as “excellent potential locations for battery projects”.

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.

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.

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

News in brief from around the world in energy storage.

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.

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.

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).

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.