BESS owner-operators Return and BW ESS have financed and acquired large-scale projects in Spain and France, respectively, totalling a little over 1GWh.

The European Union is treading the wrong path on battery regulation, according to industry groups from battery, energy storage, electric mobility and adjacent sectors.

Australia has finished trialling grid-forming battery storage for system security services and needs contracts signed within two years.

Battery storage projects have won nearly 40% of the capacity in Belgium’s latest capacity market (CM) auction results, while Germany’s first has all gone to gas, paying nearly eight times more than Belgium in the process.

BW ESS has put its 350MW/1,240MWh Hams Hall BESS project in the UK into operation, the largest in Europe.

CEO and CFO of energy storage technology provider Fluence have both left the company.

Revera Energy has doubled its holdco credit facility from US$150 million to US$300 million to fund its BESS pipeline in the UK and Australia.

Victoria’s SEC secures 10-year Glenrowan BESS offtake as Gentari’s first BESS units arrive at NSW’s Maryvale solar-storage project.

The UK BESS-owning Gresham House Energy Storage Fund has launched a formal sales process, a decision which has seen its share price jump 10%.

Two Australian battery storage projects in Queensland and Victoria have entered federal environmental review, with AGL Energy and developer ACEnergy each submitting referrals under the same national process.