The CEO of ‘All-iron’ flow battery manufacturer ESS Tech Inc (ESS Inc) has resigned, one of a number of steps the company has taken to ‘position it for the future’ after slower-than-expected growth.

Pacific Green Technologies has agreed to sell its 500MWh Limestone Coast North Energy Park BESS in South Australia to Intera Renewables.

Akaysha Energy has penned an offtake agreement with commodities trader Guvnor Group for its 205MW/410MWh Brendale BESS in Queensland.

Essential Energy, a state-owned electricity infrastructure company, has switched on three community batteries in the New South Wales towns of Maloneys Beach, Leeton and Goulburn in Australia.

Germany and the UK are currently Europe’s ‘hottest’ markets for battery storage, but others present exciting opportunities, too.

Longroad Energy has secured a power purchase agreement for one of its hybrid solar and BESS projects in California with Marin Clean Energy.

A trio of European BESS announcements, with Merus Power securing an order in Finland and IPPs Metlen and Aquila Clean Energy EMEA winning government financial support for projects in Italy and Portugal respectively.

US renewable energy company Ormat Technologies has won a tender for two separate 15-year tolling agreements for two energy storage facilities with a combined capacity of 300MW/1,200MWh.

Modo Energy has said that revenue for BESS in Australia’s NEM fell by 7% month-on-month in January, despite revenue tripling in Queensland.

A 1,600MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in New South Wales, Australia, has been submitted to the federal government’s EPBC Act.