The downstream arm of vanadium producer Bushveld Minerals and other industry sources have responded to yesterday’s article about flow battery technology’s suitability for a tender in South Africa.
The 513MW battery storage tender in South Africa has challenging domestic content and location requirements while flow battery projects will not meet the RTE requirement, consultants told Energy-Storage.news.
The U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) is funding the assessment of a large-scale battery energy storage project in Zambia, which could grow into a 400MWh nationwide rollout.
Some 2.5-3.6GW of energy storage could be cost-effectively deployed by 2033 to cut emissions and lower energy costs in the US state of Maryland, American Clean Power (ACP) said.
Scale Microgrids Solutions will build a renewables microgrid for a Native American tribe in California, announcing the new project a few weeks after securing a US$225 million debt facility.
Long-duration energy storage (LDES) may be in something of a ‘dot com’ moment, but grid operators cannot afford the ‘hiccup’ of any bubble bursting, a senior ISO manager said at Energy Storage Summit USA.
Adapting transmission infrastructure and accurately valuing energy storage are the major challenges to deployments in the US today, said panellists on the Keynote discussion at Energy Storage Summit USA today.
Cameron Murray talks to industry experts about the physical security risks to battery storage sites, and how the security and insurance aspects of operating BESS sites are evolving.
The decision by the new owners of UK gigafactory startup Britishvolt to pivot its initial focus towards energy storage rather than EVs has pros and cons, a senior industry consultant told Energy-Storage.news
The second high-profile battery storage failure due to a faulty sprinkler system could mark the beginnings of exclusions from insurance policies if certain providers develop a negative track record, a source said.