NextEra’s eight-hour energy storage project in California will use lithium-ion technology, but ‘battery chemistry did not play a major role in project evaluation’, offtaker Clean Power Alliance told Energy-Storage.news.

Soltech Energy Solutions is installing a 12MW/12MWh battery storage unit in Sweden for municipal energy firm Nybro Energi, set to come online before the end of the year.

A 250MW/1,000MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Arizona will soon break ground, utility SRP and developer Plus Power said.

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.

US energy efficiency and renewables company has entered into “strategic relationship” with Australian flow battery provider.

National science agency CSIRO has said Australia needs multiple energy storage technologies at massive scale to achieve its transition.

Vertically integrated energy storage company Kore Power is deploying a 41.2MWh BESS for a microgrid in Arkansas, US, with more downstream projects coming soon, president Jay Bellow told Energy-Storage.news.

The European Commission has approved a €103 million (US$125 million) package of direct grants from the government in Romania for battery storage projects.

Developer Spearmint Energy has acquired a portfolio of battery energy storage system (BESS) projects totalling 900MW in the ERCOT, Texas market, set to come online in 2025.

A solar-plus-storage project has been commissioned in Saxony, Germany, the first in the state from the recent ‘innovation tenders’ to do so.