Long-duration grid-scale installations led US growth, with one soon to be added in Alaska—set to be the country's largest planned single installation, said its developer Westinghouse.
State and federal tax credits drew Japan-based Envision AESC's $810-million EV battery plant and lured Pomega Energy Storage of Turkey to site a $279-million utility-scale lithium-ion and storage module facility.
Questions are still awaiting answers as Arizona Public Service Co. investigates the cause of an explosion April 19 in a 2-MW/2-MWh grid-connected energy-storage battery facility in Surprise, Ariz.
Canadian energy firm AltaGas has won a $45-million contract with Southern California Edison to build a 20-MW energy-storage system at its Pomona natural-gas-fired plant in Southern California.