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.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will allocate over US$366 million for 17 clean energy projects in rural and remote areas in the US. 

EDF Renewables North America has signed a PPA with California utility Southern California Public Power Authority (SCPPA) for part of the offtake of a solar-plus-storage project in neighbouring Nevada with a 780MWh BESS.

A roundup of energy storage news announcements from Energy Vault, Mitsubishi Power Americas and Tesla.

Developer-operator Strata Clean Energy has completed a US$559 million financing package for its 1.02GWh Scatter Wash BESS project in Arizona, US.

We catch up with the president of Canada-headquartered Hydrostor, Jon Norman, about the firm’s advanced compressed air energy storage (A-CAES) tech, current projects, future plans and being a developer versus system integrator.

Energy storage investment tax credits (ITC) were priced more highly than any other clean energy type in transferability transactions last year, according to a report from tax credit ecosystem Crux which its CEO discussed with Energy-Storage.news.

A roundup of US battery storage project financing news from this week, with deals struck by SMT Energy and UBS, Plus Power, as well as CleanCapital and Available Power, covering over 1GW of projects.

Multinational utility and IPP RWE has completed three co-located battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in the US, totalling 190MW/360MWh, with another 2GWh-plus under construction.