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The 2MW/8MWh VRFB Sumitomo Electric supplied for utility SDG&E in California. Image: Sumitomo / SDGE.

Sumitomo Electric makes long-duration flow battery sale for energy trading in Japan

August 30, 2023
Sumitomo Electric will supply an 8-hour duration vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) to a recently-established municipal power company in Niigata, Japan.
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Canadian Solar reiterates guidance for 1.8 – 2GWh of BESS shipments in 2023

August 29, 2023
Canadian Solar has reiterated guidance that it expects to ship between 1.8GWh and 2GWh of BESS equipment during 2023.
Rendering of how the Stanwell hub might look. Image: Queensland government.

Flow batteries arrive onsite as Queensland government reveals Clean Energy Hub plans

August 29, 2023
The government of Queensland has provided details of its Stanwell Clean Energy Hub multi-phase development.
Inside Vena Energy's 100MW/150MWh Wandoan BESS, which participates in the NEM. Image: NRG Services.
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AEMO’s proposed must-run ancillary service rules ‘could harm BESS business case’

August 25, 2023
Proposed new ancillary service market rules could adversely impact business case for battery storage, Cornwall Insight Australia says.
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Australia: Large-scale battery storage investments break billion-dollar barrier in Q2

August 24, 2023
More than AU$1 billion (US$0.65 billion) of financial commitments to large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects were made in Australia in the second quarter of this year.
The Maldives is home to more than half a million people, who live across its hundreds of islands, most of them relying on expensive and polluting imported diesel for their electricity. Image: wikimedia user Nevit Dilman.

Maldives launches tender seeking 40MWh BESS and EMS across 18 islands

August 23, 2023
The Republic of Maldives has launched a tender process, seeking to procure battery energy storage systems (BESS) in an energy transition project supported by Asian Development Bank (ADB) funding.
Inside a national demonstration project for compressed air energy storage using underground salt caverns developed by Tsinghua University in China, one of the filers of patents in the technology class. Image: Tsinghua University Dept of Electrical Engineering.

Leaders in patent activity for non-electrochemical energy storage technologies

August 23, 2023
Ben Lincoln, energy expert at intellectual property law firm Potter Clarkson, looks at patent filing activity in energy storage technologies outside the world of electrochemical batteries.
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South Korea offers central market contracts for 260MWh energy storage in Jeju Island tender

August 23, 2023
South Korea last week launched a competitive solicitation for large-scale energy storage systems on Jeju Island, a southern province of the country.
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AGL, Wärtsilä complete 250MW Torrens Island BESS project in South Australia

August 22, 2023
Australia’s second largest battery storage facility has been brought into commercial operation by project owner AGL and system integrator Wärtsilä.
TÜV Rheinland and Hithium representatives at the agreement's signing ceremony in Xiamen. Image: Hithium.

Hithium works with TÜV Rheinland China on BESS certification, testing, product development

August 21, 2023
Hithium is in a “complete and comprehensive cooperation” with TÜV Rheinland for the development of its energy storage products in China.

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