Aslan Energy Capital will develop a 40MW data centre with a 120MWh BESS in a deal with Indonesia’s Jakarta Industrial Estate Pulogadung.

Atmos Renewables has awarded construction company GenusPlus Group an AU$65 million (US$42 million) contract to build the 400MWh Merredin battery energy storage system (BESS) in Western Australia.

The question of where the cells in a BESS are from ties in to safety, performance, design and, increasingly, potential tariffs.

A trio of major players in the battery storage system integration space have unveiled recent Large-Scale Fire Testing (LSFT) results.

French independent power producer (IPP) Neoen has started operations at its 270MW/540MWh Western Downs stage one battery energy storage system (BESS) in Queensland, Australia.

Energy storage-focused lithium-ion OEM Hithium has started mass production of the world’s first 1,000Ah+ battery cell, which it is targeting for long-duration energy storage (LDES) applications.

Renewable energy developer Gurin Energy has appointed Saft as the technology provider to a gigawatt-hour-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) in Japan.

The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has successfully implemented a new rule in the National Electricity Market (NEM) incentivising participants to provide “helpful” impacts on frequency.

Renewable energy developer Acen Australia has received consent from the New South Wales IPC for a 640MWh wind-plus-storage project.

In this blog, ESN Premium speaks with Fluence’s Rob Hills and Sam Markham about hybrid assets and trends in Australia’s NEM.