BNEF analyst Isshu Kikuma discusses trends and market dynamics impacting the cost of energy storage in 2024 with ESN Premium.

A 450MW wind-plus-storage project in Tasmania, featuring a battery energy storage system (BESS) with a capacity of 200-400MWh, has been submitted for approval under the Australian government’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act.

Developer-operator GridStor has acquired a 150MW/300MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Texas, US from Balanced Rock Power (BRP).

European battery optimisation and energy trading service provider enspired has partnered with battery analytics company volytica diagnostics.

The Board of Supervisors (BoS) of Orange County, California, has enacted an emergency moratorium on the approval of any new BESS facilities proposed for unincorporated areas of the county in order to protect the “health, safety and welfare” of its residents. 

The government of Estonia will financially back a 500MW pumped hydro energy storage project to meet the country’s need for long-duration energy storage, as the Baltics prepare to disconnect from Russia’s grid this weekend.

The CEO and founder of KORE Power has resigned, while the vertically integrated battery storage startup has put its Arizona factory site up for sale.

Renewable energy developer Ampyr Australia has secured Shell Energy Australia’s remaining stake in the 1GWh Wellington battery energy storage system (BESS) in New South Wales.

Eku Energy’s chief technology officer, Elias Saba, discusses the shift in economics of long-duration BESS in Australia’s NEM.

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has released a whitepaper recommending the US deploy 10 million distributed solar installations and reach 700GWh of installed storage capacity by 2030.