Batteries

Study suggests a big role for grid battery storage as Illinois shutters its coal power plants

Transmission and renewables aren’t being built quickly enough to allow fossil fuel plants to close by state deadline, experts argue. Storage appears to be the most realistic path, a new analysis finds.

Nearly 4 GW of battery energy storage was added in Q2. Where did it go?

Total U.S. storage capacity has increased 87% year-over-year, per S&P Global Commodity Insights. ERCOT, WECC, and CAISO are leading the way.

Jupiter Power BESS project now online in Houston

The 200 MW/400 MWh Callisto I is Jupiter’s ninth project in ERCOT.

EIA projects 42.6 GW of new capacity additions in the U.S. during second half of 2024

Led by solar and battery storage, the U.S. could add 62.8 GW of utility-scale generating capacity in all of 2024.

Idaho’s largest battery storage project is financed. Will a NIMBY fight follow?

Idaho is developing a track record of fighting wind and solar projects, and opponents have found some success. Will they go after battery storage, too?

New York drafts updates to its fire code to address battery storage growth

The draft code language was meant to address the recommendations from the Governor’s Interagency Fire Safety Working Group.

Salt River Project, Aypa Power announce new BESS project

The 250 MW/1,000 MWh battery project would be operational by mid-2026.

Ameresco to construct largest standalone BESS in the Pacific Northwest

The battery energy storage system (BESS) will have a 20-year guaranteed capacity of 25 megawatts (MW) and 100 megawatt-hours (MWh).

Batteries

The 250 MW/1,000 MWh battery project would be operational by mid-2026. …

The battery energy storage system (BESS) will have a 20-year guaranteed capacity of 25 megawatts (MW) and 100 megawatt-hours (MWh)….

Powin selected as battery supplier for DTE’s Trenton Channel Energy Center in Michigan

The new project replaces DTE’s retired Trenton Channel Power Plant, a century-old coal-fired facility that retired in 2022….

SRP eyes long-duration storage, including at to-be-decommissioned coal plant

The Arizona utility has issued an RFP for long-duration energy storage technologies to be operational at two sites….

Two new battery storage projects coming online in Arizona

When both facilities are operational, nearly 1,300 MW of battery and pumped hydro storage will be on Salt River Project’s system….

DTE Energy demolishes legacy coal-fired plant

The 535 MW Trenton Channel plant was completed in 1924. At the time of its commissioning, it was the fourth major power plant Detroit Edison (now DTE Energy) pu…

Recurrent Energy closes $513M financing for 1,200 MWh Arizona storage project

Construction of the 1,200 MWh Papago Storage is slated to commence in the third quarter of 2024, with commercial operations expected to begin in the second quar…

Data centers offer energy peril and promise, with the Midwest increasingly in the crosshairs

A massive Microsoft complex in Wisconsin hypercharges debate over data centers’ impacts on energy reliability. …

It’s a BESS! ISO New England welcomes first major utility-scale standalone battery storage facility

The Cranberry Point facility, located in Carver, Massachusetts, is intended to help stabilize the electric grid during the region’s increasing number of extre…

The proposal includes three large solar and battery power purchase agreements, along with 400 MW of natural-gas peaking units….

Groups urge N.C. regulators to push Duke Energy on solar and wind, pump the brakes on new gas

A review of comments shows clear dissatisfaction with Duke Energy’s proposed Carbon Plan, which critics say put arbitrary limits on solar and assumes technolo…

Solar + storage project deployed for Arizona electric co-op

The project for Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Co-op (SSVEC), an AEPCO member co-op, includes a 40-MWh energy storage system and an existing 20-MW photovoltaic…