ACME Solar has signed a 300MW/1,200MWh PPA with the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) for a solar-plus-storage portfolio.

Alinta Energy has discontinued work on the 7.2GWh Oven Mountain pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) project in New South Wales (NSW), Australia.

The global energy storage market will see a decade of sustained, rapid growth and reach 3.1TW cumulative capacity by 2036, according to BloombergNEF (BNEF).

In recent North American sodium-ion news, Hithium is entering the Canadian market with two BESS solutions, while Peak Energy has closed a Series B financing round led by GM.

BESS investments in the French market are moving to longer durations with saturation expected to hit the secondary reserve market, currently the main way operational projects make their money.

IPP and EPC Faria Renewables has inaugurated its 49.9MW/134.16MWh Galani BESS project in Elassona, Greece.

Science safety leader UL Solutions has announced a new certification pathway intended to help manufacturers of modular direct current (DC) battery energy storage systems (BESS).

Distributed energy storage company Viridi and developer and financier Good Carbon Co. have announced the deployment of a 3.75MWh energy storage project in Buffalo, New York.

German IPP Enertrag and Swiss utility Axpo have launched BESS projects in France, including what could be the country’s first 3-hour project.

IndiGrid COO discusses India’s BESS growth, challenges, tariff pressures, safety standards and localisation as the market scales up.