New South Wales has approved plans to increase maximum sizing of battery storage at what could be Australia’s largest project of its type.

Utility Portland General Electric (PGE) has announced the procurement of a 75MW battery energy storage system (BESS) project in the state of Oregon, building on another 400MW round last month.

Eesti Energia, a utility based in Estonia, will install the country’s first grid-scale battery energy storage system (BESS).

Energy Vault will reveal new form factors to its EVx gravity-based energy storage solution which could deliver the “lowest cost of energy storage in the world”, CEO Robert Piconi claimed to Energy-Storage.news.

Redflow will supply a 20MWh zinc-bromine flow battery energy storage system to a large-scale solar microgrid project in California.

The US now has a larger pipeline of lithium-ion manufacturing projects than Europe, according to Clean Energy Associates (CEA) and Benchmark Mineral Intelligence.

Multinational energy firm RWE has started construction on two battery storage projects totalling 220MW/235MWh in Germany.

A senior executive from the power solutions arm of manufacturing firm Volvo Group, Volvo Penta, talked Energy-Storage.news through its recent entry into the BESS market.

Enel has revealed the role its digital and distributed technology arm is playing in a European Union-funded project to simplify integration of energy storage systems.

California governor Gavin Newsom has outlined how the state will reach 100% decarbonisation by 2045, in a policy update which put energy storage front-and-centre in enabling 24/7 clean power.