Longroad Energy has achieved financial close on a large-scale solar PV and battery storage project in Arizona, US, on which construction is already underway.

Lithium-ion manufacturer Hithium will supply 5GWh of LFP battery cells to system integrator Powin over a three year period.

News in brief from around the world in energy storage, featuring Ormat Technologies, Wärtsilä and Canadian Solar.

The automotive component manufacturing unit of India’s Tata Group has supplied BESS units to an energy storage park under construction by Tata Power.

Among highlights of All-Energy Australia were announcements from major players including Sungrow, Ingeteam and Hithium.

“We think this is the first battery cell which is designed from the end users’ point of view, based on how they want to use it,” EVE Energy’s head of energy storage Steven Chen says.

A multi-year offtake deal and technology partnership between Kore Power and Nidec were among the flurry of deals announced at RE+ last week.

Verkor, a company building a lithium-ion gigafactory in France, and system integrator Nidec ASI will together produce up to 10GWh of battery energy storage systems (BESS) to 2030.

Powin Energy has signed its latest multiple gigawatt-hour deal, including supply of some of the cells for its Waratah Super Battery project.

Battery OEM Rept Battero, part of metals firm Tsingshan Industry, has tied up with Energy Vault a few weeks after it agreed a smaller deal with Powin.