Another edition of our news in brief from the energy storage industry focusing on the bustling UK market.

Developer Cypress Creek Renewables has acquired four standalone energy storage projects totalling 400MW/600MWh in Texas, US, from Black Mountain Energy Storage (BMES).

The World Bank has provided guarantees for US$24 million of equity and shareholder loan investments into a 20MW solar-plus-storage project in Malawi.

E.ON spinout Uniper Energy Storage has received €2.75 million in EU grant funding towards a project to store hydrogen at scale in a salt cavern in Northern Germany.

The state government of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) will pledge funding towards a BESS rollout.

Battery storage deployments on the California ISO (CAISO) grid slowed in the lead-up to the peak summer season, with no new battery energy storage connected in May and only 65MW added in June.

Generate Capital has acquired US large-scale battery storage developer esVolta.

State-owned power company PGE Group has obtained regulatory approval to build a 200MW/820MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Poland.

In the first half of this year, energy storage companies raised almost as much corporate funding as in the whole of 2021.

Blackstone portfolio company Aypa Power has closed an US$88 million construction and term loan facility for Wolf Tank, a 173MWh standalone energy storage project in Texas.