The Golden State could soon become home to one of the largest non-flammable sodium-ion battery storage systems, after two US companies announced plans to deploy a 500 megawatt-hour (MWh) project in the Mojave Desert. Alsym Energy, a Massachusetts-based battery manufacturer, and Juniper Energy, a renewable energy developer based in California, signed a strategic partnership to deploy 500 MWh of high-performance Battery Energy Storage Systems (BES…