“Overall we are very happy with the direction of the budget,” says Dr Rahul Walawalkar, president of the India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA).

Wind and solar PV paired with energy storage cost-competitive against gas in Ontario and Alberta, according to study from Clean Energy Canada.

Utility-scale solar PV developer Westbridge Renewable Energy has kicked off development of its fifth solar-plus-storage project in Alberta, Canada.

Government-backed energy storage announcements continue to roll out of Queensland, with the Australian state set to begin a ‘Neighbourhood Battery’ programme.

Green Deal Industrial Plan has been welcomed by the European Association for Storage of Energy, although mentions of energy storage included in a leaked draft seen by the industry group were absent from the final publication.

Some proposed battery storage projects have been cancelled in the US and Canada since the start of this year, after facing opposition from local communities.

Australia and New York are two very different places but both are likely to soon see their first government-backed tenders in which grid-scale energy storage can compete.

Solar Media Market Research analyst Mollie McCorkindale offers insight into the market’s progress in 2022, another record-breaking year.

California’s net metering successor is controversial, but residential battery storage providers Neovolta and Sonnen have greeted it warmly.

European policy makers need to strengthen the role of flexibility technologies, write Fluence’s Julian Jansen and Lars Stephan.