A subsidiary of utility Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO) has struck a deal with Amazon to construct 3GW of new dispatchable capacity, with the aim of serving the tech company’s planned data center expansion.

Shifting dynamics in the US’ BESS industry could mean that Chinese batteries are not even needed within the foreseeable future, a local consultant told Energy-Storage.news.

The Township Board of Oshtemo in Michigan has voted in favour of enacting a one-year moratorium on the approval of any new BESS facilities. 

An energy storage agreement (ESA) between Toronto, Ontario-headquartered developer Hydrostor and California community choice aggregator (CCA) Central Coast Community Energy (3CE) is set to be amended for the third time. 

US residential solar and energy storage installer Sunrun has posted revenue of US$724.6 million in the third quarter of this year, as the company implements its “storage-first strategy”.

Two investor-owned utilities (IOUs) are seeking regulatory approval to acquire an under-development solar and storage project located in Waushara County, Wisconsin. 

Redwood Materials has closed a US$350 million Series E funding round to scale up its critical battery materials and energy storage businesses.

San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) is seeking regulatory approval to acquire an operational portion of a BESS facility located in Imperial County, California, from the US development arm of German multinational energy company RWE. 

It has become harder to finance BESS projects in the US, according to Ronak Maheshwari, a director at CRC-IB.

Community-owned public power utility Denton Municipal Electric (DME) has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Jupiter Power covering offtake from one of the developer-operator’s standalone BESS projects destined for Robertson County in Texas.