US ‘multi-day’ energy storage startup Noon Energy has announced an agreement with Meta to reserve up to 1GW/100GWh of long-duration energy storage (LDES) capacity.

In this US news roundup, Eos and Turbine-X, CPower and Vertiv, and Elevate Renewables highlight the ‘bring your own capacity’ model in data centre-focused announcements.

Amazon has announced nine new renewable energy PPAs in Australia totalling 430MW of capacity, eight of which include co-located BESS.

Fluence’s chief growth officer, Jeff Monday, and Australia strategy lead, Sam Markham, discuss hyperscale opportunities, grid-forming evolution, and the company’s high-density Smartstack deployment plans.

China’s biggest energy storage companies were out in force at a recent trade expo in Beijing, with integrated offerings, bigger battery cells, data centre solutions and sodium-ion products among the new products and tech on show.

Eora Energy has officially launched in Australia and is positioning itself as a challenger in the vanadium redox flow battery market.

The Michigan Public Service Commission has approved six battery energy storage system (BESS) projects totalling 1,332MW of capacity in the US state.

The legislative body of Nebraska, US, has advanced a bill to clarify and expand the state’s use of battery energy storage systems (BESS).

Energy-Storage.news speaks to Laurence Copson, energy storage specialist (US markets & policy), at BESS and EV solutions firm Zenobē Energy, ahead of the upcoming Energy Storage Summit USA.

Recently, utility Xcel Energy announced it would install 30GWh of US startup Form Energy’s iron-air batteries at a data centre in Pine Island, Minnesota, owned by tech giant Google.