Germany’s policymakers, regulators and energy storage industry must carefully consider the issues of grid connections and grid fees, writes Thomas Antonioli of developer Terra One.

The Australian government has announced the results of Capacity Investment Scheme (CIS) Tender 8, selecting 15 battery energy storage projects across the National Electricity Market (NEM), totalling 4.2GW/16.1GWh.

Renewables developer rPlus Energies has announced start of commercial operations for the 400MW/1,600MWh Green River Energy Centre in Emery County, Utah, US.

ZincFive, a manufacturer of nickel-zinc battery systems for data centre and AI infrastructure applications, announced on 11 June that it will become publicly traded through a merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Spark I Acquisition Corporation.

Executives from lithium-ion battery and BESS manufacturer CATL discussed sodium-ion technology at Smarter E Europe today.

LS Power-owned REV Renewables and US development and investment company LS Power have commissioned the Tumbleweed Energy Storage facility in Kern County, California, US.

Flower and ENGIE sign a 7-year virtual toll for 126MW in Germany, while Entrix wins optimisation rights for DRI’s 133MW Polish BESS.

CATL held the global launch of its large-scale sodium-ion BESS yesterday, unveiling a 30MWh+ module which it will ship outside China from next year.

As of the second quarter of this year, installed energy storage capacity in Europe overtook nuclear, according to trade association Energy Storage Europe’s new report.

Startup Ore Energy has signed an agreement with a utility in the Netherlands to deploy up to 1,000MWh of multi-day-duration iron-air batteries.