Australian startup Green Gravity has secured AU$9 million in Series A capital funding to complete product development of its gravity-based energy storage technology.

Swedish-based developer OX2 has acquired a proposed 1GW onshore wind farm in Western Australia, which includes plans for a 100MW co-located battery energy storage system (BESS).

Danish renewable energy company Ørsted and US utility Salt River Project (SRP) have confirmed that their 300MW solar-plus-storage project in Pinal County, Arizona, has commenced operations.

JSW Energy has signed a PPA with India’s Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company for a 12,000MWh PHES plant.

US-based utility Chugach Electric Association has successfully commissioned a new 40MW/80MWh 2-hour duration battery energy storage system (BESS) in Anchorage, Alaska.

The UK has confirmed a new scheme aiming to stimulate investment in the country’s long-duration energy storage (LDES) sector.

UK utility SSE’s renewable energy arm has started constructing a 320MW/640MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in North Yorkshire. When completed, it will be one of the country’s largest.

Fluence Energy GmbH, a subsidiary of battery storage system integrator Fluence, will provide solutions for Germany’s largest solar-plus-storage project.

Engineering consultancy Sweco has been contracted to design one of Europe’s largest battery energy storage systems with a storage capacity of 2,800MWh in Belgium.

The first batteries have been installed at state-owned Synergy’s 500MW/2,000MWh Collie battery energy storage system (BESS) in Western Australia.