Microsoft, Meta, Fluence and other energy storage players have founded a consortium to assess the technology’s emissions reductions.

The European Commission has approved €19.8 million (US$20.1 million) in state aid from the government of Croatia to energy storage operator IE-Energy for a series of grid-connected projects.

A large-scale sodium-sulfur (NAS) battery energy storage system made by NGK Insulators will be installed at a former LNG terminal in Japan.

A 200MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) from developer Available Power at a net-zero technology campus in Texas, US, is expected to be online in mid-2024.

Utility and power company AES Corporation has brought the Lancaster Area Battery (LAB), the second portion of a combined 908MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) complex in California, online.

Construction has started on a project in Ireland pairing a battery energy storage system (BESS) with a synchronous condenser, developed by Lumcloon Energy and Hanwha Energy.

Renewable developer Scatec and energy group EDF have signed a binding agreement with the government of Malawi to develop a hydropower plant with 309MW/7,000MWh of pumped hydro energy storage.

State-owned electricity company ESB and geoenergy company dCarbonX have signed a JV to explore green hydrogen storage opportunities off the coast of Ireland.

The EU has approved a plan by the government in Greece to put €341 million towards a 900MW energy storage pipeline, under its state aid rules.

Renewable energy company Arevon has secured a US$400 million loan facility from two banks for its solar and energy storage pipeline in the Midwest, Southeast and California.