At its peak, the facility can provide 100 MW of power for up to two hours. Duke Energy says these batteries will help increase reliability for customers.

Though details still need to be hammered out, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors passed a measure Wednesday aimed at bolstering safety regulations for future battery energy storage facilities ...

A fire inside a San Diego Gas & Electric battery storage facility in Escondido on Thursday ignited lithium-ion batteries in a storage container, prompting the evacuation of about 500 businesses and ...

A runaway thermal event severely injured four firefighters and prompted major changes to how battery energy storage sites are built and monitored.

Ford is at it again, venturing outside its lane as a carmaker into a new business — this time making battery energy storage systems — which are large batteries, some as big as shipping containers, ...

Amid Ford’s shift away from making large electric vehicles, the automaker is adding a new product line to find a home for its batteries. Ford said Monday that instead of scuttling plans to build the ...

The latest addition to the hum and crackle of the Jackson Fuller substation is more unassuming than the nearby electrical infrastructure. Encased in high, fire-resistant walls sit dozens of grey boxes ...

NASA has been quietly nurturing a battery chemistry that looks nothing like the lithium-ion packs in phones, cars, or grid containers today, yet it could solve some of the biggest headaches in energy ...

Volkswagen’s energy subsidiary Elli has connected its first large-scale battery storage system to the grid. The facility in Salzgitter has an output of around ...