New developer GridStor has acquired a portfolio of in-development battery storage projects in LA, California, from Upstream Energy, totalling 500MW/2,000MWh.

System integrator Quartux will soon deploy the largest battery system in the Mexican energy storage market, the company’s managing director told Energy-Storage.news, discussing opportunities and challenges in the country.

Manufacturing firm Arxada has started producing Prussian blue materials for Natron sodium-ion battery production while US-based Mitra Chem has hired EPC firm Bechtel to design its LFP cathode facility.

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.