Tariffs announced on ‘Liberation Day’ have already caused battery storage project deals to fall through in the US, Energy-Storage.news has heard.

ACE Power has announced that the Australian government has permitted the development of 5.6GWh of BESS in Queensland.

Samsung C&T Renewable Energy Australia has submitted plans for a 320MWh battery storage system in New South Wales to Australia’s EPBC Act.

Flow battery developer XL Batteries has commissioned its first organic flow battery through a pilot project with global storage provider Stolthaven Terminals.

The first two phases of Latin America’s ‘biggest’ solar-plus-storage project, Oasis de Atacama, have been commissioned in Antofagasta, Chile.

UK regulator Ofgem has launched a cap and floor investment support scheme to unlock funding for new Long Duration Electricity Storage (LDES).

Rob Hills, APAC vice-president of engineering and commissioning, Fluence, said: “A lot of stars need to align” for BESS as virtual transmission.

Australian electricity distributor Essential Energy has confirmed that vehicle-to-grid (V2G) charging technology is now market-ready in Australia.

Owner and operator Sunraycer Renewables has closed a US$475 million project financing facility for two solar-plus-storage projects located in Texas, US.

Idaho Power has overcome a huge hurdle facing its plan to deploy a 200MW/800MWh Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in the City of Boise by the end of next year.