Australia’s Clean Energy Council (CEC) has said that energy storage saw a strong year in 2024 with a capacity of 4,029MW/11,348MWh having reached financial commitment.

Energy storage developer-owner BW ESS has entered its fifth international market, partnering with developer MIRAI Power in Germany.

Energy storage optimisation specialist Habitat Energy has signed an agreement with Octopus Energy US to optimise a 50MW/100MWh tolled battery energy storge system (BESS) in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) market.

A roundup of recent BESS development planning consent news in the Great Britain (GB) market this week, from the pages of our sister site Solar Power Portal.

Wind developer WestWind Energy has signed a lease agreement with Australia’s New South Wales government for the development of a 1,500MWh wind-plus-storage site in the south-west of the state.

ACE Power has submitted a 500MW BESS in Queensland to Australia’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act.

UBS Asset Management has selected data analytics software company ACCURE to optimise a portfolio of battery storage assets in Texas, US.

IPP Cordelio Power has procured over 1GWh of battery energy storage system (BESS) equipment with US-headquartered energy storage system integrator and renewable energy services provider Fluence Energy.

State-owned utility and power generation firm NEK is deploying BESS at its hydropower plants across Bulgaria.

Australian energy major AGL Energy disclosed in its half-year results that it intends to make a final investment decision (FID) over the next 18 months for 1.4GW of utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS).