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April 2025 inauguration event for Swift Current Energy's 800MW Double Black Diamond Solar project in Chicago, Illinois. Photo Credit: Patrick Pyszka, City of Chicago
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Officials in Rockingham County, Virginia, deny Special Use Permit for 600MWh BESS project

May 8, 2025
Swift Current Energy has encountered a major stumbling block in developing a standalone BESS in Virginia.
UK-headquartered Nala Renewables is a developer of solar PV (pictured), wind and battery storage projects. Image: Nala Renewables.
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Nala Renewables project progresses as Town in Long Island, New York, drops BESS moratorium

May 2, 2025
With Riverhead in Suffolk County, New York, dropping plans for a moratorium, Nala Renewables has advanced a standalone BESS proposal.
Although its North Glengarry project now faces challenges, Compass Greenfield Development broke ground on some of the other projects it was awarded ELT-1 contracts for last year (pictured). Image: Compass Greenfield Development
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Ontario BESS developers with IESO contracts face local opposition

April 29, 2025
A handful of successful applicants to Ontario’s largest-ever energy storage procurement are receiving heightened backlash from local opposition over their plans. 
The Town of Oyster Bay Board special meeting on 24 April. Image: Town of Oyster Bay via Vimeo

New York: Battery storage projects face local opposition in Staten Island, Long Island

April 28, 2025
The development of large-scale battery storage projects continues to face opposition from local communities in parts of New York, US.
Image: Tilt Renewables.

Tilt Renewables submits two 8-hour batteries in South Australia to the EPBC Act

April 23, 2025
Tilt Renewables has submitted plans for two 300MW 8-hour duration BESS co-located with a wind plant to Australia’s EPBC Act.
Firetrace's Brian Cashion speaking at an industry event. Image: Firetrace International

Local opposition, not the new administration, is holding back US energy storage

April 22, 2025
Brian Cashion at Firetrace International on community engagement and local support, essential to battery storage deployment.
SolRiver Capital entered a development partnership with Korsail Energy in 2022, focusing on 'community-oriented clean energy systems that assist the local grid'. Image: SolRiver Capital.
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Officials in Colorado’s Alamosa County deny permit for joint venture’s 320MWh solar hybrid

April 16, 2025
Colorado-based IPP Korsail Energy has been dealt a blow in its quest to develop a 320MWh hybrid solar-BESS project in the Centennial State.
Rendering of an aerial view of the proposed Boise Bench Substation battery storage project. Image: Idaho Power.
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Idaho Power gets permit for 200MW/800MWh BESS project after Boise officials deny appeal

April 10, 2025
Idaho Power has overcome a huge hurdle facing its plan to deploy a 200MW/800MWh Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in the City of Boise by the end of next year.
Loch Earba (pictured) was chosen for its ideal combination of topology and geology. Image: Gilkes Energy/Earba Storage

Scottish government grants planning consent for 1.8GW/40GWh UK pumped hydro project

April 7, 2025
Gilkes Energy has been awarded planning consent for its Earba Pumped Storage Hydro (PSH) scheme.
EDF Renewables North America's Fox Squirrel Solar project in Ohio, US. Image: Matt Reese / Businesswire.
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Solar-storage PPA between EDF, Southern California Public Power Authority scrapped over rising costs

April 3, 2025
A PPA between EDF Renewables North America and Southern California Public Power Authority has been terminated after a final cost audit.

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