National Grid is set to accelerate the connection of up to 10GW of battery energy storage projects in England and Wales.

Agreements to progress projects that include energy storage signed by Voltalia during Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Uzbekistan.

Sunrun installed 258.2MW of new solar in Q3 2023, and saw a 131% year-on-year increase in energy storage installations.

Pacific Green has secured £123.5 million (US$153 million) facility to support construction of its 1.5-hour, 249MW/373.5MWh BESS in Kent, UK.

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 Altea Green Power has started building four battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in Italy totalling 1GW of capacity.

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.

NHOA Energy has gone from 111MWh of capacity online as of the end of Q3 2022, to a cumulative 535MWh at the end of the same quarter this year.