After winning a competitive selection process, Tesla will supply 40 of its Megapack utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) to a project by Australian renewable energy developer Genex Power.

News in brief from around the world in energy storage.

Peninsula Clean Energy, a non-profit electricity supplier in California, has signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) for a large-scale solar-plus-storage plant with developer Leeward Energy.

A long-duration energy storage system using NGK’s sodium-sulfur (NAS) batteries has been commissioned by a subsidiary of German chemicals company BASF, which seeks out high growth opportunity businesses to work with. 

Will Gorman from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory looks at the trend for battery storage to be directly paired with wind and solar.

State-owned electricity company ESB and energy storage technology company Fluence have announced two new battery projects in Dublin, Ireland.

A 390MW order for Sungrow’s battery energy storage system (BESS) equipment has been booked by US energy storage project developer, owner and operator Key Capture Energy. 

A framework agreement for the deployment of 2GWh of iron electrolyte flow batteries has been signed between manufacturer ESS Inc and SB Energy, the clean energy arm of Japanese telecoms giant Softbank.

LS Energy Solutions is the latest energy storage technology provider to launch modular all-in-one battery energy storage system (BESS) units for the utility-scale, as well as commercial and industrial (C&I) markets. 

Pacific Green Energy Storage is to acquire a 249MW battery energy storage development in Kent, southern England in the UK.