Highview Power has revealed its second planned long-duration energy storage (LDES) project using its liquid air energy storage (LAES) technology, in Scotland, UK.

India’s government-owned National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has launched a tender to deliver a 100MW/400MWh battery energy storage system (BESS).

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.

This edition of news in brief from around the world in energy storage includes Enel X, NineDot Energy and Nissan.

Developer and optimiser Ingrid Capacity and investor BW ESS have commissioned a 211MW/211MWh BESS portfolio in Sweden, the largest in the Nordics, they claimed.

Aquila Clean Energy has launched construction on a 50MW BESS in Finland, while MW Storage has launched two new projects in the country.

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

Form Energy, the US startup behind a battery technology that aims to cost-effectively provide 100-hour duration energy storage, has closed a Series F funding round.

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