A Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners portfolio company will shortly begin construction on a 250MW/500MWh battery storage system in Queensland, Australia.

A compressed air energy storage (CAES) project in Hubei, China, has come online, with 300MW/1,500MWh of capacity.

The government of Alberta, Canada, has selected advanced and clean energy projects to receive CA$33.7 million (US$24.83 million) in grant funding, including a hydroelectric-plus-supercapacitor technology pilot.

Belgium’s energy minister visited the site of a large-scale lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery storage project, a few days after attending the inauguration of a vanadium flow battery system.   

GRIDCO, in the Indian state of Odisha, is holding a competitive solicitation for 500MW/2,500MWh of standalone battery storage resources.

Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has begun the process of tendering for 4,000MWh of grid-scale battery storage which will be supported by government Viability Gap Funding.

ZEN Energy has raised financing from US infrastructure investor Stonepeak towards a 111MW/290MWh battery storage project in South Australia.

The UK’s House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has said government must make “major decisions about future energy infrastructure”.

Utility EWEC (Emirates Water and Electricity Company) has invited developers to submit expressions of interest (EOI) for a 400MW battery energy storage system (BESS) project in the UAE.