Brian Cashion at Firetrace International on community engagement and local support, essential to battery storage deployment.

Virtual power plants (VPPs) are networks of small-scale, distributed energy resources, such as solar panels or batteries (and in some instances vehicles) which can together function as a single power plant, providing stability to the electric grid.

The US state of Maryland will require utilities to allow electric vehicles (EVs) with bidirectional chargers to connect to the distribution grid after new legislation was passed last week.

A trio of projects in the Northeast US highlight the use of battery storage to aid electricity suppliers in maintaining stable networks.

Legislators in the US state of Maryland have voted to approve a bill requiring the deployment of at least 3,000MW of energy storage by 2033, the latest US state to make such a move.

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.

We interview three companies getting around one of the main challenges of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology.

The power solutions arm of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will deploy three co-located battery storage projects for Origis Energy in the Southeast United States.

Another serving of news in brief from around the world in energy storage.

Microgrid projects in the US states of Washington and Maryland combining battery storage, solar and vehicle-grid integration have gone online.