Another edition of our BESS Industry Buzz, this week looking at new details on CATL’s sodium-ion technology, BESS availability, BAAJA trade-offs and the price of speed to power.

West Arthur Energy, a project company owned by Western Australian developer Lacour Energy, has referred a wind generation site with a 4,000MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) to Australia’s EPBC Act.

AirTrunk has signed an exclusivity agreement with European Energy Australia covering more than 800MWh of battery storage in NSW.

Stadtwerke Gaggenau, a municipal utility in Germany, has hired a general contractor to build a 4-hour BESS project using the zinc-bromide technology from US firm Eos Energy Enterprises.

Software-focused energy storage system integrator FlexGen will serve as the integrator of MN8 Energy’s solar-plus-storage project in Kanawha, West Virginia, US, using solutions from Eos Energy Enterprises.

Alinta Energy’s 100MW/200MWh BESS at its Wagerup thermal power plant in Western Australia has been operating commercially since September.

EnergyAustralia has paid AU$750,000 (US$519,300) in penalties after the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) alleged that four battery energy storage systems (BESS) it manages failed to deliver frequency services offered into the market.

Excelsior Energy Capital-backed developer Lydian Energy has brought its 150MW/600MWh Faraday battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Utah County, Utah, US into commercial operation.

Calibrant Energy, an energy-as-a-service platform, has closed a US$145 million debt facility for solar and energy storage projects across several US power markets.

What are semi-solid-state batteries, what potential do they hold for battery energy storage system (BESS) applications, and when are we likely to see them come to market?