Amazon has added 37 new renewable energy projects to its portfolio, including two solar-plus-storage plants. 

Battery storage companies raised US$17 billion in corporate funding in 2021 but have raised US$12.9 billion already this year. 

News in brief from around the world in energy storage, this time from the USA.

A region of southern California desert has the potential to become the hub of a “world-class lithium industry”.

Global system integrator Fluence has acquired AI-enabled, renewable energy software-as-a-service provider Nispera, tripling its digital portfolio of assets contracted or managed since February to 15GW.

Group co-owned by State Grid Corporation of China and Singapore Power has halted investment into a hybrid project in South Australia. 

e-Zinc, which claims its zinc metal-based battery technology could provide low-cost, long-duration energy storage has raised US$25 million. 

Japanese conglomerate Mitsui & Co. has invested in a 1,300MW wind-plus-solar-plus-storage project development in India.

The government of Western Australia is funding work to assess a potential battery energy storage system (BESS) project which would be the biggest built in the state so far.

New York state is on course to meet its new 2030 target of 6GW of storage deployment, with storage projects in its interconnection queue growing 50% to 12GW.