sonnen Inc CEO Blake Richetta joins our series of exclusive energy storage industry leader interviews from RE+ 2022.

The US state of California is providing US$31 million for a long duration energy storage project combining vanadium flow and zinc-hybrid batteries, the first grant from a US$380 million package.

California utility PG&E has received approval for the US’ first vehicle-to-grid (V2G) export compensation mechanism for commercial EV charging customers.

New developer GridStor has acquired a portfolio of in-development battery storage projects in LA, California, from Upstream Energy, totalling 500MW/2,000MWh.

Spanish renewables platform Matrix Renewables has closed financing for construction of its Gaskell 2 and 3 solar-plus-storage projects.

Our series of exclusive RE+ 2022 interviews continues with Matt Harper and Matt Walz of flow battery company Invinity Energy Systems.

Manufacturing firm Arxada has started producing Prussian blue materials for Natron sodium-ion battery production while US-based Mitra Chem has hired EPC firm Bechtel to design its LFP cathode facility.

California investor-owned utility SDG&E has completed construction of a 40MW battery energy storage system (BESS) and started work on four storage-enabled microgrids totalling 39MW.

A trio of projects using electric vehicle (EV) batteries and charging infrastructure to support the grid in California have been announced this week.

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