Form Energy will expand its just completed scaled-up iron-air system factory in West Virginia, also announcing $1.2 billion in firm investments and plans to deploy batteries at commercial scale, with Mortenson as contractor for the first project in Minnesota. 

Also—China propelled global tension over growing size of its offshore wind turbines with the late August launch of a 20-MW capacity model in Hainan near Vietnam announced by domestic producer Mingyang Wind Power Group Ltd. and the firm's plan to build a factory in Italy.

Developer, using Iron-air technology instead of lithium-ion for long-duration storage, will build first state facility at PG&E plant site—as U.S. battery installation set new records in the third quarter and is set to in 2024.

Lithium-iron phosphate energy storage system would be among the nation's largest if completed as planned in 2025. 

EPC contractor and equity investor Aecon plans to begin construction on the Oneida Battery Storage project this year, following Canada's adoption in March of new clean energy investment credits.

The project will add a total of 199MW of battery-storage capacity at carefully selected sites across the country to improve reliability of public power utility Eskom's transmission grid.