Chinese battery manufacturer Hithium and Samsung C&T Engineering & Construction (Samsung C&T) have penned a new agreement targeting around 10GWh of battery energy storage system (BESS) capacity globally.

Global solar developer Lightsource bp and Acen Australia have seen each of their respective solar-plus-storage projects in New South Wales, Australia, totalling 550MW of generation capacity, progress.

Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has revealed the results of a reverse auction for solar PV paired with battery storage that will connect to the Inter State Transmission System (ISTS).

A green energy subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Marubeni has brought online a megawatt-scale battery storage demonstration project in Vietnam.

At the end of 2024, Australian renewable energy developer ZEN Energy, in partnership with Taiwan’s HD Renewable Energy (HDRE), announced plans to establish a joint venture in Australia that will target 1GW of energy storage capacity.

Cubico Sustainable Investments Australia has submitted two wind-plus-storage projects to the Federal government under the EPBC Act.

Tesla has started trial production at its Megapack assembly plant in Shanghai, China, state-owned news reported this week (31 December).

Installation work has started on a compressed air energy storage project in Jiangsu, China, claimed to be the largest in the world of its kind.

American Battery Factory (ABF) has partnered with KAN Battery to pilot a line of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cells.

The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has launched a 150MW/500MWh battery storage solicitation in Kerala.