Three virtual power plant (VPP) programmes have been announced in California and Colorado. Two of them will use Tesla’s Powerwall battery. Another is attempting to change customer habits to save energy and money.

According to the Q1 2025 US Energy Storage Monitor from Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables and the American Clean Power Association (ACP), energy storage installations surpassed 12GW in 2024.

US residential solar installer Sunrun ended 2024 with an energy storage attachment rate of 62% in the fourth quarter of the year.

Community batteries are likely to become another tool in a decentralised energy grid, write Lachlan Hensey and Timothy Shue from Australia’s Yarra Energy Foundation.

SolarEdge interim CEO Ronen Faier has spoken about the closure of the company’s utility-scale battery storage manufacturing business.

With more than 3GW of new deployments in the second quarter of this year, “energy storage is becoming a mainstay of the power grid” in the US.

Home battery storage aggregation projects have launched with participation of Tokyo Electric Power Co, and Tokyo Gas, two major utility companies in the Japanese capital.

The Japanese government has published the list of battery aggregators that successfully applied to a scheme to promote energy storage systems.

Energy-Storage.news, PV Tech and Huawei present a special report on the technologies and trends shaping the global energy storage market.

This Friday Briefing takes a look at how residential battery storage and other DERs can be a force for the greater grid.