8+ hour ago  (212+ words) Solar and storage project developer Sunotec has announced a partnership with US investment firm Blackstone. The latter will invest around "250 million in Sunotec, as a structured equity investment funded via its Blackstone Tactical Opportunities business. An announcement from Sunotec states…...

7+ hour, 5+ min ago  (460+ words) Sydney-headquartered vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) company EORA Energy has entered the Australian market with a pipeline of long-duration energy storage projects in mining, data centers and regional infrastructure. Targeting an end to reliance on diesel, EORA is advancing opportunities…...

4+ hour, 45+ min ago  (341+ words) One of the most important metrics in successful battery deployment is one that's decidedly harder to quantify than megawatt-hours: trust. Community opposition is quickly emerging as a critical but still underestimated hurdle in accelerating energy storage rollout. While it's impossible…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (301+ words) The development partnership behind Canada's largest operational BESS project has reached financial close on another grid-scale battery, bringing the 125 MW/500 MWh asset one step closer to commissioning. Oxford BESS is being developed by Boralex Inc. and the indigenous-owned Six Nations…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (208+ words) ESS News Brazil greenlights co-located solar and storage for the first time Brazil's National Electric Energy Agency (Aneel) has signed the country's first-ever authorization for a co-located battery energy storage system (BESS) tied to a solar generation facility, marking a…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (208+ words) The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is advancing a concept proposal to potentially financially support older energy storage and renewable resources in adopting advanced grid support capabilities. The concept, presented to the Inverter-based Resource Working Group (IBRWG) on March…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (259+ words) Utah-based Lion Energy has taken an equity position in a "strategic partnership" with American Battery Factory (ABF), aiming to secure a domestic supply of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cells it first signed on for back in 2022. The new partnership via…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (423+ words) Scotland-headquartered energy solutions company Aggreko has finalized what it calls a "landmark" power purchase agreement (PPA) with South African mining company Harmony Gold for the Eva copper project being developed in northwest Queensland. The new power plant will combine a…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (310+ words) A Japanese-Chinese research team has developed a titanium molten salt redox-flow battery (TMSRB) that uses titanium ions as the redox-active material and molten salt as electrolyte. Intended for use in'grid-scale energy storage, the TMSRB is designed to provide higher charge-discharge…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (262+ words) Renalfa Power Clusters has acquired two late-stage renewable energy projects in western Romania's Arad County, with a plan for further investment." The first asset is the 365 MWp Horia 2 solar power plant, while the second is a nearby 400 MW / 800 MWh standalone…...