In this US news roundup, Eos has received an advance on its DOE loan, FlexGen and Lighshift have partnered on 16 BESS projects, and Georgia Power has energised a 128MW BESS.

PJM has proposed a major overhaul of how it procures power capacity in response to surging data centre demand that has driven auction prices up more than 1,000% in two years and threatens to add US$70 per month to average household electricity bills by 2028.

Sunrun has agreed with distributed energy resource platform Voltus to support its Bring Your Own Capacity (BYOC) programmes for AI hyperscalers.

Energy-Storage.news speaks with Raafe Khan, head of energy storage at Camelot Energy Group, ahead of the upcoming Battery Asset Management Summit (BAMS) USA in Garden Grove, California.

Utility Appalachian Power (APCo) is seeking up to 800MW total of energy storage resources via two new requests for proposals (RFPs) in Virginia, US.

Energy-Storage.news speaks with Alon Maskovich, CEO and co-founder of enSights about BESS economics and the company’s new battery economics calculator.

Market conditions look favourable, but some developers are finding it difficult to prove their revenue projections will hold up.

Environmental services company Veolia has been selected to operate and maintain a 350MW microgrid to power an AI data centre campus in New Albany, Ohio, US, which includes a 430MWh BESS.

IPP Eolian has begun construction on Flint Grid, a 200MW/1.06GWh energy storage project in Jersey Township, Licking County, Ohio, US.

Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks with energy storage market experts Raafe Khan of Camelot Energy Group and Oliver Kerr of Aurora Energy Research on FERC’s recently issued show cause orders.