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.

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

California Energy Commission approved funding for solar-plus-storage microgrid project which will include Invinity’s largest flow battery to date.

To stay in line with net zero emissions objectives, Canada will need to install between 8GW and 12GW of energy storage by 2035.

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.

Automotive giant General Motors has launched a new division providing energy storage and energy management solutions.

At RE+ 2022 last month, Energy-Storage.news met with leading figures from the energy storage industry for a series of exclusive interviews.

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.