In this Energy-Storage.news roundup, Energy Vault enters the Swiss energy storage market, ZincFive raises Series F financing, and Convergent Energy and Power secures a multimillion-dollar facility provided by NY Green Bank.

The 600MW/1.6GWh Melbourne Renewable Energy Hub has commenced commercial operations in Victoria, Australia.

The UK’s National Energy System Operator (NESO) will offer grid connection offers up to 2035 to 283GW of projects following a reform of the process.

European energy independence is achievable if long-duration energy storage is factored into the mix, writes Oonagh O’Grady of Hydrostor.

Vena Energy has signed a battery storage supply agreement with CATL for a project which would export renewable energy from Indonesia to Singapore.

A Western Australian government initiative to deploy the largest vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) project outside China is a “pivotal moment,” one technology provider has said.

Supervisors in Maricopa County, Arizona, have approved a 100MW/400MWh battery storage project from National Renewable Solutions (NRS).

Vancouver-based helium and natural gas producer Desert Mountain Energy (DME) has signed a non-binding letter of intent (LOI) to form a joint venture (JV) to build and operate a sodium nickel chloride (SNC) battery manufacturing facility in Roswell, New Mexico. 

Vena Energy has commenced construction of a large-scale standalone battery energy storage system (BESS), adjacent to two of the company’s existing facilities, in South Australia.

Developer BrightNight and independent power producer (IPP) Cordelio Power have announced financial close of the 200MW/800MWh Greenwater battery energy storage system (BESS) in Washington state, US.