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GE won its biggest grid battery deal so far, to supply a solar plant in South Australia. The 200-megawatt Solar River plant will be coupled with a 100-megawatt/300-megawatt-hour GE Reservoir grid storage system. Solar River...

Canada's Hydrostor has closed US$37 million in growth financing. The company plans to use the funding to complete construction of the 5 MW/10 MWh Angas Project in South Australia and to advance its 2 GW pipeline of large-scale...

As electricity markets innovate with new technologies to increase system reliability and efficiency, a new industry white paper released today shows how energy storage projects integrated with power plants, such as wind and...

Hybrid resources are growing dramatically. Energy storage-paired generators offer enhanced capabilities and can respond to economic signals differently than traditional generator resources. Yet, many grid planning rules overstate...

The government of South Sudan and the South Sudan Electricity Corporation utility have launched a call for consultants to help define the nation's renewable energy development program...

Alabama Power is about to join the big leagues for solar + storage. Earlier this month the Southern Company subsidiary asked state regulators for permission to procure power from 400 MW of solar and energy storage, along...

Military bases around the country are developing plans and projects to ensure critical missions are powered in the face of nearly any disruption. Those plans increasingly include grid-scale battery storage, a resource well...

California is embracing energy storage as a reliability solution for an electrical grid that's adopting more renewable, intermittent generation. Public agencies such as the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power have set...

The world's largest residential virtual power plant is planned for the Hawaiian island of O'ahu, managing the electricity from some 1,000 rooftop solar-plus-storage systems that will be installed under a four-year contract...

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), the largest municipal utility in the United States, has announced a new partnership with 8minute Solar Energy to provide storable, renewable, and affordable power to...

Sure, small-scale batteries in homes and businesses can link up and deliver veritable megawatts of capacity. But there's nothing like the sheer adrenaline rush of stacks and stacks of lithium-ion cells packed into climate-controlled...

The California Energy Commission (CEC) Oct. 30 will release two energy storage solicitations totaling $31 million to support the state's goal under SB 100 of attaining 100% fossil-free electricity by 2045. Proposals for the...

Green Mountain Power (GMP), Vermont's only investor-owned utility, is continuing to expand its bring-your-own-device (BYOD) battery storage program with the addition of Sunrun's Brightbox home solar battery system.

Johnson Controls recently announced a partnership with Capital Dynamics to increase the amount of capital available for customers in North America working on solar or battery storage projects...

A U.S.-based energy storage developer this week bought itself a portfolio of eight North Texas wind farms. The move is a sign of the growing status and confidence of the storage sector as well. Having previously largely developed...