The number of long-duration energy storage (LDES) technologies that will commercialise for applications beyond 24 hours ‘can be counted on one hand’, the CEO of compressed air energy storage (CAES) developer Corre Energy said in an interview.

ESB Networks has announced that Ireland’s electricity grid now has 1GW of energy storage available from different energy storage assets.

A Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners portfolio company will shortly begin construction on a 250MW/500MWh battery storage system in Queensland, Australia.

A compressed air energy storage (CAES) project in Hubei, China, has come online, with 300MW/1,500MWh of capacity.

The government of Estonia has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for what would be the Eastern European country’s first pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) facility.

The government of Alberta, Canada, has selected advanced and clean energy projects to receive CA$33.7 million (US$24.83 million) in grant funding, including a hydroelectric-plus-supercapacitor technology pilot.

Belgium’s energy minister visited the site of a large-scale lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery storage project, a few days after attending the inauguration of a vanadium flow battery system.   

GRIDCO, in the Indian state of Odisha, is holding a competitive solicitation for 500MW/2,500MWh of standalone battery storage resources.

Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has begun the process of tendering for 4,000MWh of grid-scale battery storage which will be supported by government Viability Gap Funding.