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Schematic of the BESS business, with three Hitachi departments/subsidiaries involved. Image: Hitachi.

CATL joint venture orders Hitachi Energy BESS for grid-scale project in Japan

August 7, 2023
Construction is set to begin on a battery storage project in Japan through JV involving CATL with utility Shikoku Electric Power.
Australian energy minister Chris Bowen (left) visiting battery storage manufacturer Gelion's premises. Image: Gelion.

Australia seeks public input on tenders for dispatchable renewables generation and storage

August 7, 2023
Australia has opened a public consultation for scheme widely expected to be a game changer in rollout of clean energy technologies.
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‘World-first’ grid-scale sodium-ion battery project in China launched

August 3, 2023
A battery energy storage system (BESS) project using sodium-ion technology has entered commercial operation in Qingdao, China.
Schematic of the new JV business. Image: RENOVA Inc.

Japanese oil major Idemitsu’s energy storage JV launches with 15MW BESS project

August 3, 2023
Idemitsu Kosan, Japan’s biggest petroleum producer, has launched an energy storage business and announced its first lithium battery project.
Redflow's first US project was this 2MWh deployment at a biofuels production facility in California. Image: Redflow. Image: Redflow.
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Queensland invests AU$24 million in locally-made flow batteries

August 2, 2023
Two projects in Queensland using different flow battery technologies have been given the financial backing of the state’s government.
Blind Creek will co-locate solar PV, battery storage and sheep farming, as seen in this image of an existing agrivoltaics project. Image: Rob Davis / Agrisolar Clearinghouse via Flickr.

Development consent for New South Wales agrivoltaics project with 300MW/600MWh BESS

August 1, 2023
A “farmer-led” utility-scale solar PV and battery storage agrivoltaics project in New South Wales, Australia, has been granted development consent.
BESS availability can be put at risk without the right commissioning process being in place, we learned from TWAICE's May webinar. Image: Solar Media - TWAICE.

State of Charge: Energy-Storage.news webinars of H1 2023

July 31, 2023
We continue our summer season look back at the first half of this year with another chance to watch the sponsored webinars Energy-Storage.news has been proud to bring you.
A panel discussion on the first day of Energy Storage Summit Asia 2023 discusses the role of grid-connected energy storage. Image: Andy Colthorpe/Solar Media

What we learned at Energy Storage Summit Asia 2023

July 28, 2023
Energy storage’s role in enabling decarbonisation and economic growth was at the heart of discussions at Energy Storage Summit Asia 2023.
Invinity VS3 model vanadium redox flow battery of the type to be deployed by Horizon Power at Kununurra, Western Australia. Image: Invinity Energy Systems-VSUN.

ROUNDUP: Stellantis-Saft ‘breakthrough’, Azelio out of business, VRFBs for remote Western Australia

July 28, 2023
More news in brief from around the world in energy storage, featuring vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs), bankruptcy for a thermal storage startup and a new integrated lithium tech.
Victoria Minister for Energy and Resources Lily d'Ambrosio (second from left) helps turn sod at the Rangebank BESS site. Image: Eku Energy.
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Victoria energy minister in attendance as work begins on 400MWh Macquarie-Shell Energy BESS project

July 28, 2023
Pre-construction activities commenced this week on Rangebank BESS, a 200MW/400MWh project in Victoria, Australia.

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