Macquarie-backed Eku Energy has completed the financing on its first battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Japan.

The Department of Energy (DOE) of the Philippines government has confirmed that a tender for renewable energy projects with integrated energy storage will launch this year.

The benefits of advances in cell technology, which improve the performance and lifetime of battery storage systems, can be directly passed onto customers.

Australian utility Origin Energy has approved the second stage of the Eraring battery energy storage project in New South Wales, Australia.

Japan is one of the most talked-about emerging grid-scale energy storage markets in Asia, and featured prominently at the Energy Storage Summit Asia.

A project combining gas turbines and BESS technology in the Czech Republic has been put into commercial operation.

Developer Harmony Energy is set to build a 100MW/200MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project in France, the country’s largest.

Toronto, Ontario-headquartered Hydrostor is proposing to deploy one of its advanced compressed air energy storage (A-CAES) facilities in Greater Napanee, Ontario.

Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks to one of the chief architects of the Capacity Investment Scheme (CIS), aimed at breaking down barriers to investment and deployment in Australia’s renewable energy and storage sectors.