INDUSTRY NEWS
April 21, 2026
CISION PR Newswire | TVA and Plus Power’s Crawfish Creek Energy Storage Sign on 200 MW Battery Project to Strengthen Power Affordability and American Energy Dominance
Plus Power and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) announced on Tuesday a 20-year Energy Storage Agreement to add 200 megawatt / 800 megawatt-hour utility-scale battery energy storage to the Tennessee Valley. TVA, the largest public energy provider in the United States, selected the project through a Request for Proposal issued in early 2025 to supply new capacity resources needed across the region. The standalone system, developed by Plus Power’s Crawfish Creek Energy Storage project in Jackson County, Alabama, was chosen to help TVA meet its system needs and strengthen U.S. energy security.
February 11, 2026
Maine Public | New England’s largest battery storage opens in Gorham
New England’s largest standalone energy storage facility in Gorham is on and already improving reliability and stabilizing prices across the region, according to owner Plus Power. The Cross Town site in the town’s industrial park includes more than 150 battery units capable of storing up to 350 megawatt hours of energy, Christina Hoffman, the company’s senior director of planning said at a ribbon cutting Wednesday.
November 5, 2025
CISION PR Newswire | Plus Power Secures $160 Million in Tax Equity Investments for its Landmark ISO-NE Battery Storage Projects
Today, Plus Power™ announced tax equity investments from Morgan Stanley for the largest standalone battery energy storage projects in New England: a $95 million investment in Cranberry Point Energy Storage in Massachusetts, and a $65 million investment in Cross Town Energy Storage in Maine. The 150 MW / 300 MWh Cranberry Point facility, located in Carver, Massachusetts, came online in May 2025. At 175 MW / 350 MWh, the Cross Town facility in Gorham, Maine will be the largest battery in the region when it begins commercial operations in late Q4 2025.
September 10, 2025
CISION PR Newswire | Largest Utility-Scale Battery Energy Storage System in Massachusetts Now Online
Plus Power announced it is now operating its Cranberry Point Energy Storage facility in Carver, Massachusetts, the largest utility-scale standalone battery energy storage system on New England’s grid. The facility is a significant milestone in the buildout supporting New England’s energy infrastructure and grid reliability. At 150 MW / 300 MWh, Cranberry Point is helping the Commonwealth reach roughly a third of its goal to deploy 1,000 MWh of battery energy storage by 2025.
November 25, 2024
CISION PR Newswire | Plus Power Battery Storage Project Wins Public Service Company of New Mexico Award
Today, Plus Power announced that its 150 MW / 600 MWh Corazon Energy Storage project was awarded a 20-year contract by Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM), subject to regulatory approvals, in response to the utility’s 2026-2028 Generation Resources Request for Proposals. The RFP was issued in 2022 and sought projects that will help serve growing energy demand in New Mexico as it transitions to zero-carbon energy by 2045. PNM filed with the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission for approval of the project on Nov. 22, 2024.
June 25, 2024
Arizona Republic | SRP deploys state’s largest battery system to handle peak energy demand spikes
Salt River Project is deploying two new industrial-scale battery storage systems, including the state’s largest so far, to absorb excess energy when it’s not needed for release at later periods when demand spikes. The 250 MW Sierra Estrella facility, on nine acres in Avondale, became the largest standalone battery system in Arizona when it went online earlier this month, SRP said. It will store enough energy to power more than 56,000 residences for four hours. The 90 MG Superstition Energy facility in Gilbert will store enough power for 20,000 homes for four hours.
June 13, 2024
CISION PR Newswire | First Major Standalone Battery Storage Project in ISO-NE Closes Financing
Today, Plus Power™ announced the close of construction and term financing for the first major utility-scale standalone battery storage system in construction on the New England grid, among other notable firsts for standalone storage in the region. The Cranberry Point facility, located in Carver, Massachusetts, will help stabilize the electric grid during the region’s increasing number of extreme weather events while helping to suppress volatile wholesale prices for ratepayers.
February 15, 2024
CISION PR Newswire | Plus Power Secures Nearly $100 Million Tax Equity Financing for Merchant Battery Storage Project in ERCOT
Plus Power announced the completion of approximately $98 million in tax equity investment for its 200 MW / 400 MWh Ebony Energy Storage facility in Comal County, Texas. The investment from Greenprint Capital Management, a market leader in structured, renewable energy tax credit partnerships, will help the project stabilize ERCOT’s power system during dynamic summer demand and cold winter storms while helping to integrate more renewable energy into the grid.
January 27, 2024
USA Today | This state is quickly becoming America's clean energy paradise. Here's how it's happening.
Hawaii pledged to be “Coal free by ’23,” and state law requires 100% clean energy in just 21 years. Attaining that goal came closer last month when an enormous 185-megawatt battery near Honolulu hummed into full operation.
January 07, 2024
The Maine Monitor | Maine’s first giant battery project set for construction in Gorham
Construction is set to begin this spring in Gorham on one of New England’s largest battery storage projects, a preview of similar ventures that are seen as a missing link for optimizing the region’s growing fleet of solar and wind power plants.
October 17, 2023
S&P Global | Plus Power secures landmark $1.8B for US battery stations as 'tidal wave' nears
Amid a challenging high interest-rate environment, the fast-growing Houston-headquartered company closed financings with major lenders and investors to bring online 1.04 GW/2.76 GWh of lithium-ion battery capacity before peak power demand returns to Texas and the Southwest next summer.
September 12, 2023
The Texas Tribune | As brutal heat tests Texas’ power grid, batteries play a small but growing role in keeping the lights on
On Wednesday night, minutes before the state’s grid operator went into emergency mode to make sure it would have enough power to meet high demand during another triple-digit day, batteries provided more electricity to Texas homes and businesses than ever before.
April 13, 2023
AZ Central | SRP starts work on Arizona's largest standalone battery project in this metro Phoenix city
SRP and Houston-based Plus Power, joined by officials from Avondale, held a ceremonial ground breaking at the previously announced battery facility Wednesday. The new Sierra Estrella energy storage facility will hold electricity produced during low-use periods and release it when demand is higher, helping to power more than 56,000 average-sized homes for a four-hour period.
January 25, 2023
S&P Global | Supercharged: U.S. Energy Storage Reaches for Deeper Impact
The U.S. energy storage industry has a powerful set of new tools in 2023 to help decarbonize the nation’s power grid. Plus Power COO Julie Blunden joined Garret Hering’s Supercharged virtual webinar to discuss the opportunities and the considerable challenges ahead for battery storage. “It will be a while before we have fully domestic batteries for energy storage—but that may not be the requirement.”
December 30, 2022
S&P Global | ‘We're in a perpetual short’: US energy storage CEOs face limits of growth
Garrett Hering on a second great piece on the unprecedented volumes of battery storage” in development: “roughly 57 GW of large-scale energy storage resources are planned for connection to the U.S. grid between 2022 and 2025.” "Over the next three years, I think we're in a perpetual short," said Brandon Keefe, CEO of Houston-based developer Plus Power, which is offering its near-term excess battery cell orders to fellow developers short on supplies. "Those who already went out and procured supply are going to have successful projects and those who don't [have batteries] are going to have issues."
November 15, 2022
S&P Global | US energy storage wave builds strength amid delays
Garrett Hering on the coming wave of energy storage deployments, starting with Plus Power’s Kapolei Energy Storage facility in Hawaii and our 250-MW Sierra Estrella Energy Storage and 90-MW Superstition Energy Storage facilities for Salt River Project. The piece notes Plus Power having secured an excess of battery supply – 6.5 GWh—to serve our projects coming online through 2025 and more. "”The next year is going to be a game of musical chairs of those who have supply and those who don't," Keefe said. Plus Power is talking with fellow developers in need.”
August 18, 2021
Canary Media | Hawaii building huge new battery, bidding farewell to coal
Julian Spector describes the unique grid-forming and blackstart services of Plus Power’s planned 185 MW/ 565 MWh KES facility on Oahu, Hawaii, beyond its main role of absorbing abundant, low-cost renewable energy and shifting it to when energy is needed most. “Put simply, KES is a test case for how to switch from fossil fuels to clean energy without relying on gas power in a pinch.”
August 6, 2021
Forbes I Plus Power: Charging Into New Storage Markets
Peter Kelly-Detwiler on Plus Power’s data-driven strategies to deploy utility-scale stand alone energy storage across the U.S.
September 15, 2020
Green Tech Media | The Race Is On to Build the Biggest Batteries in Texas
San Francisco-based storage developer Plus Power did the early legwork on those two sites before selling to BRP, GTM learned. Earlier this year, Plus Power also won a massive battery contract to displace a coal plant on Oahu, Hawaii. "Plus [Power] identified an early opportunity for storage to provide valuable services in Texas," CEO Brandon Keefe said. "Broad Reach was the right partner at the time to bring this project from [notice to proceed] to online."