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The average UK grid-scale battery project size went from 6MW in 2017 to more than 45MW in 2021. Image: RES Group.

The numbers behind the record-breaking rise of the UK’s battery storage market

March 17, 2022
The UK energy markets’s appetite for battery energy storage systems has grown and grown.
Flow battery demonstration plant in Hubei, China, where the world's biggest VRFB system, at 100MW/400MWh, went online recently. Image: VRB Energy.

Australia’s lithium, vanadium battery value chain gets share of AU$243m government funding

March 17, 2022
Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced financial support for four technology sector manufacturing projects, including a vanadium processing plant.
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Pension fund invests in Octopus-developed 1.5GW clean energy park to replace Australian coal plant

March 17, 2022
Australian pension fund Hostplus will invest in a JV to build a 1.5GW renewable energy park.
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Hybrid and colocated solar-storage projects in the works in Alberta, Canada

March 16, 2022
Three solar power plant projects in development in Alberta will add nearly 300MW of battery storage to the province’s grid.
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UK’s Gore Street acquires portfolio of Texas battery projects

March 16, 2022
Gore Street has acquired a portfolio of eight energy storage assets in Texas.
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Goldman Sachs brings online California solar-plus-storage project with 561MWh of batteries

March 16, 2022
Goldman Sachs Renewable Power has cut the ribbon on a large-scale solar-plus-storage project in Kings County, California.
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US gigafactory startup ABF claims first 3GWh LFP-making facility can be online in two years

March 16, 2022
Energy-storage.news speaks with the CEO of American Battery Factory, which seeks to establish a network of LFP gigafactories.
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Northvolt announces third European gigafactory site for ‘sustainably produced’ batteries

March 15, 2022
Northvolt intends to build its third gigafactory in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
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South African grid operator’s big storage push rolls on

March 15, 2022
South African grid operator Eskom is close to finalising the launch of 832MWh of battery energy storage development, but eyes are on an even larger upcoming REIPPP-model procurement.
Gransolar's E22 provides lithium-ion and vanadium flow battery-based energy storage. Image: E22.

Gransolar’s first BESS project in Australia will be optimised by Fluence software

March 15, 2022
Fluence’s software will be used at the first battery storage project in Australia by Spain’s Gransolar Group. 

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