A trio of projects using electric vehicle (EV) batteries and charging infrastructure to support the grid in California have been announced this week.

Energy project integrator Ameresco and utility Bright Canyon Energy have broken ground on a solar and storage project with a 168MWh battery system at the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam West Loch Annex in Hawaii.

Investor Quinbrook has sold a 49% stake in the 1.4GWh Gemini solar-plus-storage project in Nevada, US, to Dutch pension asset manager APG.

Global battery energy storage system integrator Fluence is using its intelligent bidding software solution to optimise the trading activity of a 508MWh system it recently completed for AES in California.

Dragonfly Energy Corp, a battery technology company that with a patented solid state battery technology, has completed a listing through a merger with a SPAC.

Vanadium flow battery company Invinity Energy Systems has sold a 1.3MWh system to Kinetic Solution for a microgrid project serving a data centre in Arizona.

The US and India have launched a joint energy storage taskforce to support the integration of new renewable energy resources.

American Development Partners (ADP) will deploy the home energy storage solution of NeoVolta at 750 pain management clinics across the US.

The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities has proposed a number of policies to incentivise the deployment of standalone energy storage, to help hit a 2GW target.

A couple of weeks ago, Energy-Storage.news met with leading figures from the energy storage industry at RE+ 2022.