The US Department of Energy (DOE) has earmarked up to US$3.5 billion of new capital for battery manufacturing, a week after European gigafactory company Freyr announced it would only be scaling in the US for now.

Oberon solar and storage project has 679MWp solar PV capacity and a co-located 250MW/1GWh battery storage facility.

Longroad Energy has achieved financial close on a large-scale solar-plus-storage in Arizona acquired from solar manufacturer First Solar.

Eric Dresselhuys, CEO of iron and saltwater electrolyte flow battery provider ESS Inc speaks to Energy-Storage.news about markets, strategy and profitability for long-duration energy storage (LDES).

US-made battery energy storage system (BESS) DC container solutions will become cost-competitive with those from China in 2025 thanks to incentives under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Clean Energy Associates said.

Energy storage system (ESS) executives from Northvolt and Fluence discussed the battery and battery storage manufacturing ecosystem in Europe in separate interviews whilst at the Energy Storage Summit Central Eastern Europe (CEE) recently.

The transferability provisions under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in the US “will unlock billions” in capital for clean energy, said financing firm Evergrow as it claimed the first tax credit transfer transaction.

Energy-Storage.news caught up with Yann Brandt, chief commercial officer (CCO) at FlexGen, the US system integrator with a strong focus on software through its Hybrid OS controls platform.

LS Energy Solutions brought the first container which will be deployed at a 200MW project in California to this year’s RE+ 2023 trade show.

Fluence president Americas John Zahurancik spoke with Energy-Storage.news at RE+ 2023 last week, discussing a broad range of industry talking points.