A 100MW/200MWh BESS project in Northern Ireland has been acquired by the renewable energy development subsidiary of UK-headquartered power generator and developer SSE.

Here’s news in brief from around the world in energy storage with liquid metal battery maker Ambri, a German government-funded sodium-ion initiative, and ESS Inc’s iron flow battery project at Amsterdam.

Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited has signed a PPA in India with public sector power company SJVN for firm dispatchable renewable energy.

Optimiser Habitat Energy has secured a deal with UBS Asset Management to handle the energy market activity of four BESS projects totalling 730MW in ERCOT, Texas.

Developer energyRe has secured US$240 mllion from Bank of America to fund the 108MWdc/198MWh Lone Star solar-plus-storage project in South Carolina, US.

Battery energy storage system (BESS) developer-operator Plus Power has received a US$82 million tax equity investment from bank Morgan Stanley for an Arizona project.

The UK residential energy storage market has moved from primarily being about coupling with solar PV to one where users seek to take advantage of time-of-use tariffs, solutions provider GivEnergy told Energy-Storage.news.

Australia’s energy storage sector has seen trio of significant announcements around major battery energy storage system (BESS) projects.

US vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology company Nuvve has entered a strategic partnership with Chinese battery and energy storage solutions manufacturer Guangzhou Great Power.

Average revenues for the Gresham House Energy Storage Fund doubled from February to April this year, fund manager Gresham House said in its full year 2023 results.