The US Department of Energy (DOE) is investing US$28.7 million into grid resilience projects for Florida.

Wärtsilä’s new Quantum 2 containerised battery energy storage system (BESS) solution is aimed at meeting “customers’ varying needs,” the company has said.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) is funding trial deployments of two different non-lithium battery technologies at microgrids in Western Australia.

DEPCOM Power, a provider of engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) work, is midway through construction on what it has called Puerto Rico’s “largest” solar-plus-storage project.

With leading US energy storage markets on a phenomenal growth trajectory, the role of BESS has been highlighted by recent heatwaves.

A consortium led by the US Department of Defense is developing microgrid capable of withstanding harsh extreme cold weather conditions.

Battery storage is the most obvious medium-term solution to help stabilise the grid and act as a catalyst to enable renewable energy.

Communities at risk of losing their electricity supply in the service area of California utility PG&E when disasters strike are being supported in developing their own microgrids through a new scheme announced by the utility this week.