Developer Open Road Renewables has proposed a battery energy storage system (BESS) in Indiana which will total 131MW/524MW of storage, the company’s President exclusively told Energy-storage.news.

Construction work has started on a 30MWh pumped hydro storage project in Western Australia.

News in brief from around the world in energy storage, this time from the USA.

Compressed air long-duration energy storage solution provider Hydrostor has received an investment commitment of US$25 million from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.

Battery energy storage system (BESS) developer Jupiter Power has closed a US$174.6 million portfolio debt financing for its six projects totalling 650MWh of storage in the ERCOT market in Texas.

CATL has sold 900MWh of battery energy storage system (BESS) equipment to US independent power producer (IPP) Broad Reach Power. 

Holyoke Gas & Electric (HG&E) with a 5MW/15MWh battery energy storage system (BESS).

Californian investor-owned utility PG&E has commissioned the 182.5MW/730MWh battery energy storage system supplied by Tesla at its Moss Landing substation.

A 10MW/50MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) spread across two substations in Slovenia has started a trial and testing period.

Neoen has been contracted by AGL to provide a “virtual” charge or discharge of a battery system in Australia.