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 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.

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.

South Korea last week launched a competitive solicitation for large-scale energy storage systems on Jeju Island, a southern province of the country.

Australia’s second largest battery storage facility has been brought into commercial operation by project owner AGL and system integrator Wärtsilä.

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

The four most high-profile energy storage system (ESS) companies that listed via SPAC mergers – Eos, Energy Vault, ESS Inc and Stem – have seen their share prices fall by an average of 80% since going public.

Alinta Energy will deploy a battery energy storage system (BESS) in Western Australia at the site of one of its thermal power plants.

The government of New Caledonia, a French overseas territory in Polynesia, has announced plans for a 150MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) to be deployed by IPP Akuo Energy.

Startup Kyoto Group has begun operational testing of a 4MW molten salt-based power-to-heat system in Denmark.