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. 

Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) has negotiated the terms of a solar and BESS power purchase agreement (PPA) with Boston, Massachusetts-based developer Longroad Energy.

A recent decision from South Dakota’s Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has highlighted a legal permitting ambiguity in the way energy storage facilities are treated in the Mount Rushmore State. 

Northern California Power Agency (NCPA) has negotiated the terms of an energy storage services agreement (ESSA) with Aypa Power, relating to offtake from a 400MW standalone BESS destined for the County of San Bernardino. 

Regulated utility Dominion Energy last week received the green light from local officials to develop a 100MW/400MWh BESS in Fauquier County, Virginia. 

Investor-owned utility (IOU) Entergy is seeking regulatory approval from the Arkansas Public Service Commission (PSC) to construct what could become the largest BESS in the southern US State. It will support a data centre from Google.

A flurry of large-scale BESS project news in the US from four major developer-operators, coinciding with the country’s largest clean energy trade show RE+.

US sodium-ion battery firm Natron Energy has ceased trading, putting an end to its two domestic gigafactories. The news points to the challenges for battery chemistries hoping to compete with LFP, analysts told Energy-Storage.news.

Tech giant Google has announced a partnership with utility SRP to help accelerate the commercialisation of non-lithium long-duration energy storage (LDES) technology.