News in brief from around the word in energy storage with another edition of the Energy-Storage.news roundup.

Locally-produced BESS product will support energy transition and boost industrial competitiveness, a government minister has said.

Maoneng joint venture has begun work on a 240MW/480MWh battery energy storage system project in Mornington Peninsula region of Victoria.

Elcora is developing a vanadium pentoxide plant in Morocco to complement raw materials extraction.

Invinity and BASF have announced the first deployments of their non-lithium battery storage tech in Hungary and Australia respectively.

An AU$120 million (US$81.34 million) government funding round has opened in Australia for community battery energy storage projects.

It is “vital” that energy storage systems are incorporated into the energy infrastructure of the Philippines, president has said.

The Australian market for residential battery storage grew by an estimated 55% in 2022 from the previous year, according to SunWiz.

Green Investment Group (GIG) and Shell Energy have announced a 200MW/400MWh battery storage project in Victoria, Australia.

Sembcorp has pulled the plug on Indonesia solar-plus-storage project, shortly after completing Southeast Asia’s biggest battery storage project.