Grid-scale battery storage has emerged as the preferred option to ensure reliable electricity supplies in regions of New South Wales, Australia.

The first 500MWh of SMC Global Power’s battery storage portfolio has been installed.

As the role of coal declines and ends in Australia’s NEM, huge growth in dispatchable energy storage capacity will be needed in the mix.

ArcLight views its portfolio of existing thermal power plant assets as “excellent potential locations for battery projects”.

FREYR Battery will go ahead with construction of its first battery gigafactory in Norway, which has announced a National Battery Strategy.

News in brief, from another busy week for our colleagues reporting on the UK battery storage market at Solar Power Portal.

Hornsdale Power Reserve in South Australia has been fined for breaching National Electricity Rules over a three month period in 2019.  

Australia’s Clean Energy Council calls for an energy storage target, while arguing that a plans for a capacity mechanism should be scrapped.

Energy storage can enhance the reliability and lower the costs of operating and maintaining Ontario’s electricity distribution network.

The government of Western Australia has begun a drive to deploy at least 1,000 renewable energy off-grid power systems.