The state of Queensland, Australia, has committed to investing AU$448 million into battery storage technology at a coal power plant.

Developer Oracle Power and China Electric Power Equipment and Technology (CET) are looking to develop and build a 1.3GW project combining solar, wind and battery energy storage system (BESS) technology in Pakistan.

Europe appears to be slower and less bold than other markets like the US when it comes to financial support for upstream battery material projects like lithium refining, a company looking to invest half a billion euros in an EU project told Energy-Storage.news.

Iron flow battery company ESS Inc will provide Nigeria-based IPP Sapele Power 1MW/8MWh of its systems, it announced while also revealing its first quarter financials.

Over a gigawatt of bids from battery storage project developers have been successful in the first-ever competitive auctions for low-carbon energy capacity held in Japan.

Zambian developer GEI Power and Turkish energy technology firm YEO are aiming to have a 60MWp PV, 20MWh BESS project in Zambia online by September 2025.

Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited has signed a PPA in India with public sector power company SJVN for firm dispatchable renewable energy.

Developer energyRe has secured US$240 mllion from Bank of America to fund the 108MWdc/198MWh Lone Star solar-plus-storage project in South Carolina, US.

The UK residential energy storage market has moved from primarily being about coupling with solar PV to one where users seek to take advantage of time-of-use tariffs, solutions provider GivEnergy told Energy-Storage.news.

Australia’s energy storage sector has seen trio of significant announcements around major battery energy storage system (BESS) projects.