Canadian Solar and Axium Infrastructure have begun operation of the Crimson Energy Storage large-scale battery system in California.

Long duration energy storage technologies like flow batteries, compressed air or gravity-based solutions look set to enter the market at scale in the second half of the 2030s, according to the DNV Energy Transition Outlook.

The US and the European Union have made a fresh pledge to support green energy in Africa.

Recent policy developments in the US and European Union represent a considerable uplift to prospects for global energy storage deployment.

California investor-owned utility SDG&E has completed construction of a 40MW battery energy storage system (BESS) and started work on four storage-enabled microgrids totalling 39MW.

Independent Power Producer (IPP) FirstLight Power will replace its Tunnel Jet peaking facility in Connecticut, US, with a battery energy storage system by 2024/25.

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.