A total of 4.5GW/12.8GWh of large-scale BESS capacity when into operation around the world last month, with Asia and South America showing strong figures.
US sodium-ion (Na-ion) battery startup Alsym Energy and California-based renewables developer Juniper Energy have announced a 500MWh strategic partnership.
Australia has clawed back AU$1.3 billion (US$940 million) in uncommitted clean energy manufacturing funding, with the Solar Sunshot Program and Battery Breakthrough Initiative among the programmes hit by budget cuts announced this week.
Japanese telecoms tech company Softbank Corporation has launched a battery cell and battery energy storage system (BESS) manufacturing arm in its home country.
South Africa’s TSO Eskom and energy storage technology firm Energy Vault have partnered to deploy projects using the latter’s gravity-based technology.
We caught up with the CEO of owner-operator BW ESS, Erik Strømsø, about the firm’s next deployment plans, tolling trends, procurement and LDES, with its 11.5-hour Bannaby BESS in Australia further proof of lithium-ion’s long-duration potential.
China-headquartered energy storage firm Gotion and US power electronics manufacturer Richardson Electronics have partnered to manufacture BESS. It comes at a time when Chinese companies are starting to sell down stakes in US assets amid new FEOC rules.
Long-duration energy storage (LDES) developer-operator Hydrostor intends to enter its compressed air storage project into Ontario, Canada’s recently announced LDES procurement.
Developer Akaysha Energy has received federal environmental clearance for its 400MW/1,600MWh Glenrowan battery energy storage system (BESS) in Victoria, with the project deemed “not a controlled action” under Australia’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act.
We catch up with Ingmar Wilhelm, co-founder and CEO of developer and IPP Galileo, after the firm commissioned its first own-operate renewable energy project.
In this US news roundup, battery energy storage system (BESS) project updates from Spearmint Energy in Texas, Polaris Renewable Energy in Puerto Rico, and Clearway Energy Group in Utah.
Solar PV and wind are now the cheapest sources of power, with co-located hybrids increasingly delivering round-the-clock electricity at fossil fuel-competitive costs in high-resource regions, according to a new report by IRENA.
Utility-scale battery storage systems in Western Australia supplied 37.2% of peak demand on 9 May, marking one of the highest battery storage penetration levels recorded in an isolated grid globally.
Chinese renewable energy solutions provider Envision Energy will explore renewables opportunities in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, with Nova Scotia-based Cape Breton China Corp.
