Jennifer Downing, senior advisor to the Loan Programs Office at the US Department of Energy (DOE) and author of a recent report into virtual power plant technology, speaks to Energy-Storage.news.

BESS projects in ERCOT, Texas, will be hit by a double whammy of market saturation and new rules around minimum state-of-charge (SOC), as the technology helps the state battle a severe heatwave.

RWE has brought its biggest utility-scale BESS project in the US closer to the start of commercial operations.

After a record-breaking year in 2022, the US energy storage industry has seen second successive quarter of declines in installation figures.

‘Multi-day storage’ tech company Form Energy and US utility Georgia Power have sealed a “definitive agreement” for a grid-scale project.

AES Corporation has added the 2GW Bellefield solar-plus-storage project to its portfolio after acquiring it from the project developer, Avantus.

Eolian has taken the amount of financing it has raised in just three years since founding to more than a billion-and-a-half-dollars.

US energy storage developer Gridstor has announced the start of construction of its first project, a 60MW/160MWh BESS in California.

Groundbreaking has taken place in West Virginia, US, for the factory where startup Form Energy will be mass producing batteries for long-duration energy storage (LDES) applications.

Texas continues to be a hotbed for energy storage activity, as CATL announces major supply deal and first project to get ITC comes online.