New Zealand’s Meridian Energy has received a draft decision proposing to ease access restrictions on contingent hydro storage at Lake Pūkaki.

Eku Energy has submitted its 1,000MWh Griffith battery energy storage system (BESS) for environmental assessment under Australia’s EPBC Act.

Ark Energy has received approval from AEMO and Transgrid to connect its 3,148MWh Richmond Valley solar-plus-storage site to the NEM.

California-headquartered developer esVolta has closed an expanded corporate credit facility providing up to US$450 million of capital to expand new utility-scale energy storage projects in the US.

Data centre developer DayOne has signed agreements through Malaysia’s government-launched Corporate Renewable Energy Supply Scheme (CRESS).

Developer EDF power solutions North America and developer-operator Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company – Masdar, have entered into 15-year power purchase agreements (PPAs) for a California, US solar-plus-storage project.

Virtual power plant (VPP) operator and distributed energy resource (DER) platform Voltus and tech giant Google have signed a three-year 100MW agreement for the PJM region in the US.

Akaysha Energy’s Waratah Super Battery is now operating at 700MW and 1,680MWh following the successful return to service of High Voltage Transformer 2 (HVT2), the BlackRock-backed developer confirmed in a market update today (4 June).

Australia’s Victorian government has approved four new energy projects worth a combined AU$2.4 billion via its DFP, including 1,390MW of BESS.

US solar manufacturer T1 Energy has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire vertically integrated battery energy storage system (BESS) company KORE Power.