A roundup of the biggest projects, financing and offtake deals in the energy storage sector that we have has reported on this year.

As with previous years, our year in review wrap up of 2023 includes interviews with a handful of industry players from around the sector.

The European Union (EU) Commission has approved a state aid scheme aiming to fund the rollout of over 9GW/71GWh of energy storage in Italy.

A 100MW battery storage project in the UK connected to National Grid’s transmission network has gone online, developed by Pacific Green on the former site of a coal plant.

Developer Gurin Energy is so convinced of Japan’s energy storage market potential that it is planning a single project equivalent to the country’s entire installed base of lithium-ion battery storage.

Developer-operators Jupiter Power and On.Energy have secured a combined c.US$100 million in project financing for standalone battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in the ERCOT, Texas market.

Akaysha Energy took Final Investment Decision (FID) on Queensland BESS, while another of its projects has achieved key grid code compliance.

Arizona utility Salt River Project has welcomed start of operations at battery storage system installed at existing solar PV plant.

Global system integrator Fluence has been hit by a cross-complaint by the owner of the Diablo battery storage project in California, which is seeking a US$230 million refund for Fluence’s engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) work on it.