As data centre demand surges, utilities and developers are turning to distributed energy resources (DERs) to ease grid strain.

Excelsior Energy Capital-backed developer Lydian Energy has brought its 150MW/600MWh Faraday battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Utah County, Utah, US into commercial operation.

Calibrant Energy, an energy-as-a-service platform, has closed a US$145 million debt facility for solar and energy storage projects across several US power markets.

Derrick Flakoll, senior policy associate for North America at BloombergNEF, has offered a more measured take on how the Democrats’ midterm victories could affect the battery energy storage system (BESS) sector.

Democrats scored major victories in the US Midterm elections, taking both the House and Senate and flipping several long-held Republican strongholds, with changes likely to occur in the clean energy sector.

Energy storage developer-operator Bimergen Energy has filed an application for an Option 2 Retail Electric Provider (REP) certificate in Texas, US.

South Korean battery giant LG Energy Solution (LG ES) has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) with owner-operator Energix-Renewable Energies to expand collaboration on energy storage projects in Europe and the US.

Rondo Energy and Rio Tinto have started engineering and design work on a 360MWh thermal energy storage (TES) project in Australia.

From the Midwest to New York, local and state governments are introducing new zoning rules and restrictions on BESS and data centre projects.

Independent power producer (IPP) Clearway Energy has added 210MW of energy storage capacity to its Honeycomb Energy Centre fleet in Southern Utah, US.