Large-scale BESS projects have been completed or progressed in Bulgaria, Moldova, North Macedonia and Romania, including what is now the largest operational system in the CEE region.
Sungrow’s BESS and grid-forming power conversion system (PCS) combined established system voltage within 19 seconds during black-start testing at the company’s newly established large-scale, plant-level grid-forming field test base.
Australia has installed 380,712 home battery storage systems, representing 10.7GWh of storage capacity, since the introduction of the Cheaper Home Batteries Program last year, Chris Bowen, Australia’s minister for climate change and energy, has disclosed.
Queensland has become the first state in Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM) to discharge over 100GWh from utility-scale battery storage systems in a single month.
A quartet of Germany BESS project announcements: Green Flexibility has completed a project, Suncatcher has enlisted Statkraft to optimise three solar-plus-storage ones, SWB and Be.storaged are together building a system, while ArcelorMittal has enlisted EDF Power Solutions to do so.
Fortescue’s AI-enabled batteries stabilised its Pilbara mining grid without spinning generators, reversing electron flow in nanoseconds during disruption.