A roundup of long-duration energy storage (LDES) news from around the world this week.

The European Commission, along with governments of Australia, the US and Canada, have backed a new initiative to promote battery storage.

Developer Kyon Energy has sold 194.7MW of battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in Germany to investor Obton, including one it recently claimed was the largest in Europe.

Investors SUSI Partners and SMT Energy have added 10 BESS projects in the ERCOT, Texas market, building on an already-operational 100MW portfolio in the state.

Europe’s telecommunications sector has the potential to deploy 15GWh of distributed energy storage (DES), halving its energy costs and helping the energy transition, Finnish telecoms firm Elisa said discussing its new DES solution with Energy-Storage.news.

The government of Spain, through the Institution for the diversification and energy savings (IDAE) has awarded 880MW/1809MWh in its first tender for energy storage to be co-located with renewables.

New HOrizons Ahead (NHOA) has completed work on a large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) in Taiwan, designed specifically for a new ancillary service opportunity.

Gridstor has started commercial operations at its 60MW/160MWh Goleta battery storage facility in the US state of California.

The Spanish Ministry of Ecological Transition (MITECO) has allocated €85 million (US$91 million) to develop 51 renewable energy generation and storage projects on the Canary Islands.

Grid-scale battery storage will be added in the Caribbean by Honeywell in the US Virgin Islands and Leclanché in St Kitts & Nevis.