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.

To integrate a targeted 500GW of non-fossil fuel energy onto India’s networks by 2030, at least 160GWh of energy storage will be needed.

LG will use an energy management system developed by Fractal EMS for commercial and industrial energy storage systems in the US market.

Queensland’s state government has identified batteries as the fastest way to add energy storage to the electricity network.

Harmony Energy has secured a £60 million debt facility from major UK retail and commercial banking group NatWest.

Ambri has received an order in South Africa for a 300MW energy storage system based on its proprietary liquid metal battery technology.