Gridstor has started commercial operations at its 60MW/160MWh Goleta battery storage facility in the US state of California.

Interest rate rises and longer development timelines have driven a fall in the value of early-stage projects in the US clean energy and energy storage market and a flurry of sell-offs, developer-operator Agilitas Energy told Energy-Storage.news.

The US Department of Energy will commit US$30 million in new awards and funding opportunities for energy storage solutions.

The battery energy storage system (BESS) subsidiary of Canadian utility Hydro-Québec, EVLO Energy Storage, has announced its first project in the US.

Canadian energy company TC Energy has announced that its pumped hydro energy storage project in Ontario will soon receive a final evaluation from the Canadian Ministry of Energy.

US utility company Xcel Energy has received approval from Minnesota state regulators to build a 1GWh project in the state using Form Energy’s iron-air battery storage technology.

The inaugural Energy Storage Awards: recognising excellence, hard work and innovation in the European industry.

New developer GridStor has acquired a portfolio of in-development battery storage projects in LA, California, from Upstream Energy, totalling 500MW/2,000MWh.

Reducing peak demand for commercial and industrial (C&I) electric utility customers in Ontario remains a big opportunity for using battery energy storage to reduce costs and decarbonise, three partner companies working on a 2MWh project have said.