Energy technology company Wärtsilä is supplying 500MW/2,000MWh of battery energy storage systems (BESS) to PV projects operated by Clearway Energy Group in Hawaii and California, US.

Battery storage is the most obvious medium-term solution to help stabilise the grid and act as a catalyst to enable renewable energy.

Newly announced funding support from ARENA is enabling the expansion of a planned large-scale battery project in New South Wales.

Battery storage capacity in the US more than tripled to 4,631GW in 2021 and increasingly broadened out of ancillary services, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).

Volkswagen has started construction of its 40GWh battery cell gigafactory in Salzgitter, Germany, and the company plans to dedicate capacity to grid-scale energy storage in future.

News in brief from around the world in energy storage.

Quinbrook developing A$2.5 billion ‘Supernode’ site in Queensland for storing energy and data that would include 2,000MWh of battery storage.

KULR Technology Group, a developer of battery safety and thermal management technologies, is buying 75MWh of batteries from a subsidiary of Taiwan Cement Corporation (TCC).

Enervenue has already got 5GWh of customer orders for its metal-hydrogen battery for stationary storage.

Construction has begun of a factory for long-duration flow batteries using iron and saltwater electrolyte in Queensland, Australia.