The UK government has cemented the role of energy storage as a generation asset in last week’s landmark Energy Bill.

Aware Super has identified a “significant strategic opportunity” to invest in an energy storage project developer.

Energy technology company Wärtsilä is supplying 500MW/2,000MWh of battery energy storage systems (BESS) to PV projects operated by Clearway Energy Group in Hawaii and California, US.

Microsoft will be the latest big tech player to use battery storage at data centres which will provide grid flexibility services.

South African energy company Kibo Energy will procure two vanadium redox flow battery system pilot projects from CellCube, the first step in a larger rollout.

Newly announced funding support from ARENA is enabling the expansion of a planned large-scale battery project in New South Wales.

Battery storage capacity in the US more than tripled to 4,631GW in 2021 and increasingly broadened out of ancillary services, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).

Volkswagen has started construction of its 40GWh battery cell gigafactory in Salzgitter, Germany, and the company plans to dedicate capacity to grid-scale energy storage in future.

News in brief from around the world in energy storage.

Quinbrook developing A$2.5 billion ‘Supernode’ site in Queensland for storing energy and data that would include 2,000MWh of battery storage.