On 4 September, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), along with multiple other law enforcement organisations, raided Hyundai Motor and LG Energy Solution’s electric vehicle (EV) battery cell plant in Ellabell, Georgia, US.

Utility Georgia Power has announced the open comment period for its 2025 Request for Proposals (RFP) for battery energy storage system (BESS) resources. 

Utility Georgia Power has requested certification from the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) for 9,900MW of new generation resources.

Perhaps best known outside the US for peaches and its emergence as a rival to Hollywood, Georgia is also thirsty for electric capacity and has become a hub for battery manufacturing, writes Allan Oduor of Enertis Applus+.

Georgia Power has begun construction on 765MW of new battery energy storage systems (BESS) across Georgia, US.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will lend the Georgia government US$104 million to support a transmission-connected battery energy storage system (BESS) project.

US battery gigafactory ‘power play’ will see smaller vendors step back, write Anjali Joshi and Dan Finn-Foley of Clean Energy Associates.

According to the Q1 2025 US Energy Storage Monitor from Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables and the American Clean Power Association (ACP), energy storage installations surpassed 12GW in 2024.

A legal challenge against NextEra Energy Resources (NEER) over the construction of a 250MW/1,000MWh standalone BESS in Georgia has been dismissed by the Superior Court of Fulton County, after several months of litigation. 

NYSE-listed firm Freyr has cancelled its plans for a battery manufacturing plant in Georgia, US, following its pivot to becoming a US solar company.