Hecate Grid has progressed a 300MW/1,200MWh battery storage project in California, US, signing off-take contracts for its stored energy and gaining a key local authority approval.

California’s rapid transition to renewables presents challenges that energy storage can solve, write the team from Form Energy.

Battery storage in homes and at businesses contributed to helping the CAISO grid in California afloat during recent difficulties.

Gravity-based energy storage company Energy Vault is to immediately begin deploying a previously-announced 275MWh battery storage system project in California for Wellhead Electric and W Power.

Energy stored in batteries is being dispatched in large volumes in California as record-breaking hot weather brings crisis.  

Utility and power company AES Corporation has brought the Lancaster Area Battery (LAB), the second portion of a combined 908MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) complex in California, online.

Luna Battery Storage, a 100MW/400MWh BESS project in California, is now online and serving community choice aggregator Clean Power Alliance.

Renewable energy company Arevon has secured a US$400 million loan facility from two banks for its solar and energy storage pipeline in the Midwest, Southeast and California.

Another edition of our news in brief from around the world in energy storage.

Compressed air long-duration energy storage (A-CAES) solution provider Hydrostor has chosen Kiewit to provide engineering and design studies for its 500MW Willow Rock Energy Storage Center in California, US.