A front-of-meter microgrid combining 2.2MW of solar PV with a 9MWh battery has gone online in Humboldt County, northeast California, which its developers claim is the first of its kind.

Modhera is India’s first fully solar powered town, demonstrating that battery storage can enable 24/7 clean energy.

Cellcube has signed a five-year agreement with an energy asset developer to deploy 1GW-plus of its vanadium redox flow batteries (VFRBs) in Southern Africa, but CEO Alexander Schoenfeldt tells Energy-Storage.news the company’s supply chain has a long way to go before getting to that kind of number.

News in brief from around the world in energy storage.

Energy group Enel has started operating a 4MW/1.7MWh backup power storage system at a plant in Spain’s North African territory using 78 repurposed Nissan electric vehicle (EV) batteries.

Honeywell and Duke Energy will jointly develop and deliver microgrid solutions to US cities.

Saft has won a turnkey contract for a 7MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in a Norwegian archipelago which it claims is the largest in the Arctic.

The community of the Daintree Rainforest region in Queensland, Australia, will host a “world-leading renewable microgrid”.

CellCube has agreed a five-year, three-million litre/year bulk electrolyte supply deal with producer US Vanadium.

FlexGen Power Systems has launched an electric vehicle charging solution combining its energy management system (EMS) platform and battery energy storage.