Origin Energy will invest around AU$400 million (US$263.7 million) in a battery storage project at the site of one of its gas power plants in the state of Victoria.

Turkey and India’s policies towards battery imports and domestic production, astonishment at China’s 2023 deployment figures and sifting through some ‘bragawatt-hour’ claims in this week’s Friday Briefing.

The Public Utility Commission of Texas has ordered the state’s grid operator ERCOT to rescind state-of-charge (SOC) rules requiring batteries to hold additional capacity to provide ancillary services.

UK-headquartered Zenobē Energy attracted the most venture capital (VC) funding of any company in the energy storage industry during 2023, as found by Mercom Capital.

Tesla’s energy storage and generation revenues have tripled since 2020, largely driven by deployments of Megapack battery storage systems.

Battery energy storage system (BESS) developer and operator Field has acquired two projects in Scotland from RES.

Utility and independent power producer (IPP) Iberdrola will deploy battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in Spain adding up to 150MW/300MWh, to be co-located with existing PV plants.

A 60MW/80MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Taiwan, supplied by system integrator Fluence, has gone online.

Recurrent Energy, project development subsidiary of Canadian Solar, has secured a US$500 million equity investment from Blackrock.