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CSA Group’s advanced network of global laboratories support manufacturers in testing their ESS to CSA C800-2025. Image: iStock
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April 2025 inauguration event for Swift Current Energy's 800MW Double Black Diamond Solar project in Chicago, Illinois. Photo Credit: Patrick Pyszka, City of Chicago
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Officials in Rockingham County, Virginia, deny Special Use Permit for 600MWh BESS project

May 8, 2025
Swift Current Energy has encountered a major stumbling block in developing a standalone BESS in Virginia.
UK-headquartered Nala Renewables is a developer of solar PV (pictured), wind and battery storage projects. Image: Nala Renewables.
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Nala Renewables project progresses as Town in Long Island, New York, drops BESS moratorium

May 2, 2025
With Riverhead in Suffolk County, New York, dropping plans for a moratorium, Nala Renewables has advanced a standalone BESS proposal.
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New York: Battery storage projects face local opposition in Staten Island, Long Island

April 28, 2025
The development of large-scale battery storage projects continues to face opposition from local communities in parts of New York, US.
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Fire safety: UL Solutions tests thermal runaway to new UL9540A standard, Prevalon and CLOU conduct TS-800 Large-Scale Fire Testing

April 24, 2025
New UL9540A test aims to further enhance battery storage fire safety, while large-scale fire testing (LSFT) aims to address remaining gaps.
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Local opposition, not the new administration, is holding back US energy storage

April 22, 2025
Brian Cashion at Firetrace International on community engagement and local support, essential to battery storage deployment.
Rendering of an aerial view of the proposed Boise Bench Substation battery storage project. Image: Idaho Power.
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Idaho Power gets permit for 200MW/800MWh BESS project after Boise officials deny appeal

April 10, 2025
Idaho Power has overcome a huge hurdle facing its plan to deploy a 200MW/800MWh Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in the City of Boise by the end of next year.
Dry Bridge, a 20MW/80MWh BESS project which East Point Energy developed and brought into operation in 2023, on behalf of utility Dominion Energy which bought the project two years prior to that and before Equinor's acquisition of the developer. Image: East Point Energy.
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East Point withdraws 116MW BESS project in Upstate New York after town bans utility-scale storage

April 2, 2025
Equinor-owned East Point Energy has officially withdrawn plans to construct a 116MW standalone BESS in New York State.
'The developer conundrum - challenges to operations' panel at Energy Storage Summit Australia 2025 in Sydney with (L-R) moderator Simon Mason, Everoze, Killian Wentrup, Acen Energy, Daphne Yao, Valent Energy and Tom Best, Eku Energy. Image: Solar Media

‘There’s been a real land grab in the NEM’: Australia’s BESS developers talk challenges

March 28, 2025
Suitable energy storage project sites are quickly being snapped up in Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM), with a premium on grid location.  

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