Ohio Power Siting Board has given approval to a large-scale standalone battery energy storage system (BESS) project for the first time.

Vanadium flow battery company Invinity Energy Systems has sold a 1.3MWh system to Kinetic Solution for a microgrid project serving a data centre in Arizona.

Microsoft will be the latest big tech player to use battery storage at data centres which will provide grid flexibility services.

News in brief from around the world in energy storage.

Quinbrook developing A$2.5 billion ‘Supernode’ site in Queensland for storing energy and data that would include 2,000MWh of battery storage.

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

Urban Electric Power has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with developer Pine Gate Renewables to supply the latter up to 4,550MWh of its zinc batteries over the next five years.

Global system integrator Fluence increased its revenues for the first three months of 2022, its second quarter, 249% to US$343 million.

Amazon has signed cross-portfolio power purchase agreement (PPA) deals with AES Corporation for California clean energy resources.