The government of Western Australia has begun a drive to deploy at least 1,000 renewable energy off-grid power systems.

Investor-owned utility SDG&E and the City of San Diego are launching a dozen microgrid projects with energy storage across San Diego, California, following similar announcements elsewhere in the state.

Crossboundary Energy Access, an investment platform which is project financing solar-powered mini-grid projects in rural Africa, has secured US$50 million funding.

Hitachi Energy will power the US’ first-ever primary vanadium source entirely from renewable energy in a partnership with Nevada Vanadium.

A front-of-meter microgrid combining 2.2MW of solar PV with a 9MWh battery has gone online in Humboldt County, northeast California, which its developers claim is the first of its kind.

Modhera is India’s first fully solar powered town, demonstrating that battery storage can enable 24/7 clean energy.

Cellcube has signed a five-year agreement with an energy asset developer to deploy 1GW-plus of its vanadium redox flow batteries (VFRBs) in Southern Africa, but CEO Alexander Schoenfeldt tells Energy-Storage.news the company’s supply chain has a long way to go before getting to that kind of number.

News in brief from around the world in energy storage.

Energy group Enel has started operating a 4MW/1.7MWh backup power storage system at a plant in Spain’s North African territory using 78 repurposed Nissan electric vehicle (EV) batteries.

Honeywell and Duke Energy will jointly develop and deliver microgrid solutions to US cities.