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Major BESS projects internationally, including the Victorian Big Battery in Australia (pictured) and Zenobe's upcoming project in Scotland are providing inertia via their inverters. Image: Victoria State government.

Australia’s capacity mechanism ‘shouldn’t lock in reliance on aging and polluting generators’

June 22, 2022
A capacity mechanism for Australia’s National Electricity Market needs to catalyse investment in renewable energy and energy storage.
Artist's concept drawings of how VSUN's residential flow battery could look. Image: VSUN.

Australian projects trial benefits of distributed neighbourhood and flow battery energy storage

June 21, 2022
The government of Victoria, Australia, has opened a round of funding for ‘neighbourhood-scale’ battery storage.
1414 Degrees early concept art for the Aurora project. Image: 1414 Degrees.

Australia large-scale hybrid CSP-battery-PV project revived after pull-out of investors

June 17, 2022
Novel project in development in Australia combining CSP, molten silicon thermal storage, solar PV and grid-scale BESS appears to be revived.
Muja coal power plant is scheduled for phased retirement by the end of 2029. Image: Wikimedia user nachoman-au

Western Australia invests A$3.8 billion to manage coal to renewables-plus-storage transition

June 17, 2022
Western Australia will retire its two state-owned coal power plants by 2030 and invest in renewable energy and energy storage.
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Powin sells minority stake to Samsung investment arm

June 16, 2022
Global battery energy storage system (BESS) integrator Powin has sold a minority stake to Samsung Venture Investment Corporation.
Sembcorp has been involved with UK BESS projects like the one pictured, which uses Fluence's containerised battery units. Image: Sembcorp.

Sembcorp to build 200MW battery storage at Singapore’s industrial hub Jurong Island

June 16, 2022
Sembcorp is building 200MWh of battery storage systems on Singapore’s Jurong Island, home to much of the country’s industrial activity.
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ROUNDUP: US has 35TWh of pumped hydro potential, 5.8GW grid capacity tender in Spain, 530MW of ESS projects progress in Philippines

June 14, 2022
News in brief from around the world in energy storage.
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Edify Energy secures project financing for 300MWh BESS in NSW, Australia

June 14, 2022
Australian renewable energy developer Edify Energy has secured project financing for three battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in New South Wales totalling 150MW/300MWh.
Queensland's Wivenhoe PHES plant, which has been in operation since 1985. Image: Queensland State Archives via Flickr / Public Domain.

Queensland puts A$48 million into studies for potential large-scale pumped hydro sites

June 13, 2022
Australia’s first new large-scale pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) plant in nearly 40 years is being built in Queensland and the state’s government is now exploring options for more.
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Solar-plus-storage project with up to 4,500MWh of batteries proposed in Philippines

June 13, 2022
An infrastructure group owned by Philippine billionaire Enrique K Razon has proposed construction of one of the biggest solar-plus-storage projects in the world.

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