An Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) programme to put AU$120 million (US$78.17 million) towards community battery storage received applications for more than ten times that amount.
Developer Plus Power’s recent financing for BESS projects in Arizona and Texas shows it “driving energy storage into the mainstream of capital markets”, executive chairman Brandon Keefe told Energy-Storage.news.
The renewable energy IPP arm of UK utility SSE is to start building a 320MW/640MWh battery energy storage system (BESS), which could be the largest under-construction in the country.
The amount of large-scale battery energy storage systems completed in the US as of Q3 2023 already exceeds the whole of 2022, American Clean Power said.
Renewable energy and energy storage developer Akaysha Energy will soon begin construction on a 150MW/300MWh battery storage project in Queensland, Australia.
The government of the Canadian province of Quebec has approved the construction of an energy storage manufacturing facility from Réseau Allégé Québec (RAQ).