The UK’s battery energy storage market will grow to 24GW by the end of the decade and account for almost 9% of all global capacity installations, energy research firm Rystad Energy said.

Pomega is selling the future offtake from its South Carolina ESS gigafactory into a market with “a lot of scepticism about whether US battery cell production is viable”, its VP business development told Energy-Storage.news.

There has been US$150 billion of announced investments into the US’ upstream and downstream clean energy industry since the Act was passed, according to American Clean Power (ACP).

There is a long way to go before the new standalone storage investment tax credit (ITC) starts to really make a dent in the market, speakers and delegates at the Energy Storage Summit USA last month said.

The massive buildout of battery storage in the ERCOT, Texas market and the risk of market saturation was a huge talking point at Energy Storage Summit USA last month.

A senior executive from the US’ second-largest grid operator MISO sat down with Energy-Storage.news to discuss the challenges that come with a soaring energy storage market.

Pacificorp has released its 2023 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) outlining significant solar, wind and storage capacity expansions as well as investment into new transmission lines.

Developer Available Power is focusing on the ‘distributed play’ of 9.9MW-or-less battery storage opportunities within the area of grid operator ERCOT in Texas, a senior executive told Energy-Storage.news.

Legislators in the US state of Maryland have voted to approve a bill requiring the deployment of at least 3,000MW of energy storage by 2033, the latest US state to make such a move.

NextEra’s eight-hour energy storage project in California will use lithium-ion technology, but ‘battery chemistry did not play a major role in project evaluation’, offtaker Clean Power Alliance told Energy-Storage.news.