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11 articles covering "battery storage"
The Blackstone-backed Pediment battery storage system is now serving customers in Arizona, the first of two Aypa projects contracted with Salt River Project.
T1 Energy, the former FREYR, agreed to acquire battery storage provider KORE Power for about $32 million, adding 1,100 deployed projects.
The DOE's Grid Storage Launchpad has commissioned the first prismatic battery cell production line at a US national laboratory, starting with sodium-ion and LFP chemistries.
The IEA's World Energy Investment 2026 report finds $2.2 trillion flowing to clean energy against $1.2 trillion for fossil fuels, with solar alone attracting nearly $365 billion — close to $1 billion per day.
The US installed 9.7 GWh of new battery storage in Q1 2026—a 32% year-over-year jump and the highest first quarter ever recorded—as data center expansion and global gas disruptions outweigh federal permitting headwinds.
A new IRENA report introduces firm levelised cost of electricity for hybrid solar/wind-plus-battery systems and finds round-the-clock renewable power now beats new coal in China and new gas globally.
Ford on May 11 announced Ford Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary backed by roughly $2 billion that will build a 20-foot containerized BESS at a repurposed Kentucky plant, with first customer deliveries in late 2027.
California batteries discharged 12,000+ MW in late March 2026, equal to 12 nuclear plants and over 40% of state demand, as installed capacity climbs past 16 GW.
Meta signed a reservation deal for up to 100 GWh of ultra-long-duration storage from Noon Energy, a startup whose reversible fuel cell borrows chemistry from NASA's MOXIE Mars experiment.
Minnesota PUC approves Xcel Energy's $430 million Capacity*Connect program to deploy up to 200 MW of utility-owned batteries, sparking a national debate over who should control distributed energy storage.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration projects developers will add 86 gigawatts of utility-scale generating capacity this year — nearly double 2025's total — with solar and battery storage accounting for nearly four-fifths of new installations.