The US Energy Information Administration (US EIA) annual survey of power plant activity found that in 2024, utility-scale batteries were more commonly used for price arbitrage.
Three US battery energy storage system (BESS) developers, GridStor, Flatiron, and Jupiter Power, have advanced BESS projects totalling 1.6GWh across Arizona, Massachusetts, and Michigan.
South Korean battery and electronics materials manufacturer Samsung SDI debuted its new battery energy storage system (BESS) products at the RE+ trade show in Las Vegas, US.
Hithium has announced its lithium-ion and sodium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS) for supporting data centres, while Storion Energy has secured its first vanadium electrolyte customer.
A flurry of large-scale BESS project news in the US from four major developer-operators, coinciding with the country’s largest clean energy trade show RE+.
US sodium-ion battery firm Natron Energy has ceased trading, putting an end to its two domestic gigafactories. The news points to the challenges for battery chemistries hoping to compete with LFP, analysts told Energy-Storage.news.
Tech giant Google has announced a partnership with utility SRP to help accelerate the commercialisation of non-lithium long-duration energy storage (LDES) technology.
“The industry has to continue to be aggressive,” says Luigi Resta, president of US renewable energy and energy storage developer rPlus Energies, on the US remaining a competitive market for energy storage.
Flatiron Energy has commenced initial proceedings to construct a 168MW/672MWh BESS at the site of a former coal-fired power plant located in Bristol County, Massachusetts.
