IPP Northland Power has achieved financial close for the 80MW/160MWh Jurassic battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Cypress County, Alberta, CA.

Another edition of news in brief, this time from regulators in the US states of Connecticut and Oregon and flow battery maker Quino Energy.

Developer Upstream Energy has negotiated a resource adequacy (RA) agreement with California community choice aggregator (CCA) Clean Power Alliance (CPA) associated with the developer’s standalone Olinda BESS project located in Los Angeles County, California.

Jupiter Power has unveiled plans to construct a 700MW standalone battery energy storage system (BESS) facility at the site of a former oil depot previously owned by ExxonMobil in Everett, Massachusetts.

The European renewable energy IPP arm of Korean conglomerate Hanwha Group, Q Energy, has started building one of the largest battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in France.

The local authority in an Ontario municipality has backed energy company Enbridge’s three battery storage projects in the Canadian province.

NASDAQ-listed zinc-based electrochemical battery storage provider Eos Energy Enterprises has said that a subsidiary of Koch Industries has committed to investing US$100 million into the company.

Convergent Energy & Power’s first projects out of a joint venture with Shell have come online, while GE Renewable Energy touted the imminent implementation of the country’s ‘first hybrid electric gas turbine’ project.

We also asked what it means for the company to now be under SolarEdge’s ownership, why effective management and control of batteries may be a more important safety question than just which battery chemistry to choose.

Total’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Saft, has completed work on a 10MW / 5.5MWh energy storage project in Bermuda that only began in February.