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.

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

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.

Kraftblock, a thermal energy storage startup based in Germany, and Australia’s MGA Thermal have secured funding to accelerate their technologies’ scale-up and commercialisation.

Framework agreement signed between developer Vena Energy and suppliers to a cross-border clean energy ‘hybrid megaproject’ in Indonesia.

Australia has opened a public consultation for scheme widely expected to be a game changer in rollout of clean energy technologies.

Two projects in Queensland using different flow battery technologies have been given the financial backing of the state’s government.

A “farmer-led” utility-scale solar PV and battery storage agrivoltaics project in New South Wales, Australia, has been granted development consent.