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.

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced US$4.37 billion in clean energy investments for rural utilities through the Empowering Rural America (New ERA) programme.

The Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) has verified with Energy-Storage.news that it voted unanimously 3 December, to certify utility Georgia Power’s plans to build 500MW of battery energy storage systems (BESS) across four locations.

Georgia Power has inaugurated the first battery energy storage system (BESS) project the US utility company has built to own and operate.