JSW Energy has signed a PPA with India’s Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company for a 12,000MWh PHES plant.

The first batteries have been installed at state-owned Synergy’s 500MW/2,000MWh Collie battery energy storage system (BESS) in Western Australia.

On Friday (4 October), the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced Australia as an international collaborator on its Long Duration Storage Shot initiative.

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Queensland’s Stanwell Corporation seeks to add 5GWh of energy storage to its resource mix through two new deals.

Australian utility Origin Energy is set to focus on energy storage and renewable energy generation, announcing last week it will exit the hydrogen market.

The 360MW Mortlake solar-plus-storage project in Victoria, Australia, has been granted development consent by the state government.

Flow Power’s chief operating officer, Byron Serjeantson, believes solar-plus-storage projects represent an upcoming trend in Australia’s PPA market.

Frontier Energy will pursue alternative funding solutions after missing out on Reserve Capacity Credits (RCCs) from the AEMO for its 360MWh Waroona Renewable Energy Hub in Western Australia.

Eku Energy has begun its first battery storage project in Japan, while Gore Street Capital has raised funding for the country’s first energy storage-dedicated fund.