Construction has started on a project in Ireland pairing a battery energy storage system (BESS) with a synchronous condenser, developed by Lumcloon Energy and Hanwha Energy.

World Energy Storage Day Chair Dr Rahul Walawalkar on this year’s virtual global conference.

New York consortium working to accelerate battery tech and manufacturing awarded US$63.7 million through the US Department of Commerce.

LFP batteries from CATL and Narada are among those ranked highest performance for stationary energy storage in DNV’s new ‘Battery Scorecard’.

Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) is seeking 2,250MW of so-called ‘Round-the-Clock’ (RTC) energy from renewable sources.

Renewable energy company Arevon has secured a US$400 million loan facility from two banks for its solar and energy storage pipeline in the Midwest, Southeast and California.

Canadian Solar was behind a successful bid in Chile’s July auction with 253MWp of solar PV and 1GWh battery energy storage.

Pilot production has been established by an Australian company making lithium-ion battery storage solutions designed for hot climates.

Another edition of our news in brief from around the world in energy storage.

Spanish multinational Naturgy has bought a large-scale hybrid solar-plus-storage project in development in Australia.