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Coalburn 1 (pictured) is one of three transmission-connected BESS assets currently under construction by CIP in Scotland, UK. Image: Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners.

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners sells 50% stake in 500MW UK BESS project to AXA

May 1, 2025
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) will divest a 50% ownership stake in its 500MW Coalburn 1 BESS to alternative investor AXA IM Alts.
Image: Yarra Energy Foundation.

Yarra Energy Foundation receives funding for three community batteries in Victoria, Australia

May 1, 2025
Yarra Energy Foundation has secured funding to install three new community batteries in and around Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Image: Neoen (LinkedIn)

AEMO: standalone battery energy storage pipeline grows by 86% year-on-year in Australia’s NEM

May 1, 2025
AEMO has revealed that, as of March 2025, the pipeline of new standalone BESS in the NEM has increased by 86% year-on-year (YoY).
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NYSERDA launches US$775 million funding for residential and retail energy storage

April 30, 2025
NYSERDA has launched a programme to incentivise residential and retail energy storage in the state, offering a total of US$775 million for energy storage projects.
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Fluence to provide BESS for NTR’s grid-forming Finland project

April 30, 2025
Investor NTR has picked system integrator Fluence for a 55MW/110MWh BESS project in Finland, with grid forming capabilities.
Rendering of Eku Energy's 150MW/600MWh Eshi BESS project in Okayama, Japan. Image: Eku Energy

Japan: 1.3GW of battery storage contract awards in LTDA capacity auction

April 30, 2025
A total of 26 battery energy storage projects in Japan have been selected for contracts through the Long-Term Decarbonisation Power Source Auction (LTDA) for 2024.
Although its North Glengarry project now faces challenges, Compass Greenfield Development broke ground on some of the other projects it was awarded ELT-1 contracts for last year (pictured). Image: Compass Greenfield Development
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Ontario BESS developers with IESO contracts face local opposition

April 29, 2025
A handful of successful applicants to Ontario’s largest-ever energy storage procurement are receiving heightened backlash from local opposition over their plans. 
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IPP Atlas inaugurates 800MWh ‘first large-scale standalone BESS’ in Chile

April 29, 2025
Atlas Renewable Energy has inaugurated a 200MW/800MWh BESS project in Chile, which it claimed is the ‘first large-scale standalone BESS’ in the country and the wider Latin American region.
The amount tendered in Q1 2025 has already surpassed the 2024 total. Image: JMK Research and Analysis

India’s utility-scale standalone energy storage market at ‘critical inflection point’

April 29, 2025
National and regional agencies in India tendered for 9.5GW of utility-scale ESS in Q1 2025, more than two-thirds for standalone systems.
Image: MGA Thermal.

MGA Thermal completes ‘world-first industrial steam heat’ energy storage demonstrator in Australia

April 29, 2025
Australia’s MGA Thermal has completed what it claims is the world’s first industrial steam heat energy storage demonstrator project.

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