Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks with Claire McConnell, VP business development for Redwood Materials’ energy storage business, Redwood Energy, about its recent backing from Google and Nvidia, and what it has planned next.

Utility Xcel Energy will install 30GWh of US startup Form Energy’s iron-air batteries at a data centre in Pine Island, Minnesota, belonging to tech giant Google.

Redwood Energy announced the final closing of its Series E financing round, bringing the total raise to US$425 million.

Google parent company Alphabet has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Intersect Power.

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.

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

Google has partnered with and made a strategic investment in carbon dioxide-based long-duration energy storage (LDES) company Energy Dome.

Arizona utility Salt River Project (SRP) and renewables developer NextEra Energy Resources have commissioned a 1GWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Buckeye, Arizona, US.

As distributed energy resources such as residential solar rooftop increase in the next decade, aggregation into virtual power plants could save US utilities up to US$35 billion, according to The Brattle Group.

Google’s smart home division has joined a group of companies including Ford, Sunpower and Sunrun in founding a new partnership centred around scaling the market for virtual power plants (VPP).