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

Agilitas Energy, a developer of distributed and smaller utility-scale solar PV and battery storage projects in the US, has entered the Texas ERCOT market.

The investment tax credit is an undoubted game changer for the US industry, but it isn’t easy or cheap to capture its benefits.

The New York Public Service Commission has given utilities until the end of 2028 to put in place large-scale energy storage resources, extending a previous 2025 deadline.

LG Energy Solution will build a cell factory with 16GWh of annual production capacity dedicated to the stationary energy storage market.

Madison Gas and Electric has purchased a solar and battery storage plant with combined capacity of 465MW with WEC Energy Group.

The US energy storage sector deployed 4.8GW in 2022, close to the combined amount installed in 2020 and 2021.

This edition of news in brief from around the world in energy storage focuses on virtual power plant action in the US.

Origis Energy has obtained a US$750 million credit facility for its solar and energy storage development project pipeline in the US. 

Groundbreaking has taken place for a manufacturing hub in West Virginia, US, to be powered by a large-scale solar-plus-storage microgrid.