The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is putting US$2.3 billion into projects increasing energy resiliency in rural communities, with two energy storage projects already shortlisted for awards in Arizona and Nebraska.
Developer rPlus and utility PacifiCorp have amended an existing PPA for a solar-plus-storage project, to increase the energy storage resource’s planned size from 400MWh to 1,600MWh.
Zinc-bromine flow battery technology company Redflow has received a grant award and notice-to-proceed (NTP) for two projects in California, US, totalling 21.6MWh.
China-based lithium-ion battery manufacturer Hithium has agreed to supply 1GWh of products to US energy storage project developer Perfect Power through a memorandum of understanding (MOU).
Investment in energy storage in the US has gradually built up momentum, but what will really take it into the mainstream – and when? A panel of financiers discuss their opinions and experiences in this panel session.
Experts, technology providers and energy system stakeholders discuss how the need for long-duration energy storage can be met, in this panel discussion from the Energy Storage Summit USA hosted earlier this year by our publisher Solar Media.
Gatekeepers of the electric grid – and electricity markets – in the US discuss the primary challenges facing energy storage and reveal what their organisations are doing to unlock the true value of batteries and other storage.
The Americas region is on track to leapfrog Asia-Pacific in terms of deployed energy storage by 2025, before accounting for more than half of global capacity by the end of the decade, new analysis from Wood Mackenzie suggests.
California’s goal of reaching 100% emissions-free retail electricity by 2045 is achievable, but will require huge deployments of long-duration energy storage, especially from 2030 onwards.
