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Anthony Albanese (pictured) and the Labor Party have taken on board the need for storage in making clean energy dispatchable, Dr Bruce Mountain said. Image: Anthony Albanese's office via Twitter.

Australia’s federal election: a shift in policy could cause ‘chaos and delay’

April 3, 2025
With Australia’s federal election set for 3 May 2025, Energy-Storage.news delves into how energy storage could be impacted.
Rendering of the 250MW/1,000MWh Oneida BESS, which is nearing completion. Image: NRStor.

Ontario IESO: ‘Considerable amount’ of battery storage will help meet Canadian province’s rising energy demand

April 2, 2025
Ontario’s electricity system will be able to handle rising demand, thanks in part to new battery energy storage systems (BESS).
Dry Bridge, a 20MW/80MWh BESS project which East Point Energy developed and brought into operation in 2023, on behalf of utility Dominion Energy which bought the project two years prior to that and before Equinor's acquisition of the developer. Image: East Point Energy.
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East Point withdraws 116MW BESS project in Upstate New York after town bans utility-scale storage

April 2, 2025
Equinor-owned East Point Energy has officially withdrawn plans to construct a 116MW standalone BESS in New York State.
Rendering of Eku Energy's proposed Wongalea BESS project in NSW, Australia. Image: Eku Energy
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Australia has the world’s toughest grid codes, and BESS developer Eku Energy is fine with that

April 2, 2025
ESN Premium hears from Tom Best, COO at Eku Energy, what it takes to comply with Australia’s Generator Performance Standards.
Figure 5. Most of the suppliers included in the report are predicted to ship between 3.5-6.5GWh of product in 2025.

CATL and Sungrow join Tesla as AAA-Rated energy storage suppliers

April 1, 2025
Charlotte Gisbourne, market analyst at PV Tech Research discusses trends and movements in the Q1 2025 edition of the EnergyStorageTech Bankability Ratings report.
Image: EASE / LCP Delta.

Europe installed 12GW of energy storage in 2024; EU state aid boost to come

April 1, 2025
A total of 11.9GW of energy storage across all scales and technologies was installed in Europe in 2024, bringing cumulative installations to 89GW.
KCE NY 1, the state's first grid-scale BESS project, went into operation in 2020. As of April last year, around 396MW of BESS was in operation in New York. Image: Key Capture Energy

New York State large-scale energy storage support scheme approved by regulators

March 31, 2025
Regulators earlier this month approved a scheme to support grid-scale energy storage facilities, aligned with New York’s 6GW by 2030 policy target.
'The developer conundrum - challenges to operations' panel at Energy Storage Summit Australia 2025 in Sydney with (L-R) moderator Simon Mason, Everoze, Killian Wentrup, Acen Energy, Daphne Yao, Valent Energy and Tom Best, Eku Energy. Image: Solar Media

‘There’s been a real land grab in the NEM’: Australia’s BESS developers talk challenges

March 28, 2025
Suitable energy storage project sites are quickly being snapped up in Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM), with a premium on grid location.  
Waratah Super Battery. Image: Akaysha Energy.

BNEF: Australia’s utility-scale BESS uptake to expand eightfold to 18GW in 2035

March 28, 2025
BloombergNEF (BNEF) has found that utility-scale BESS uptake in Australia could increase eightfold to 18GW in 2035, up from 2.3GW in 2024.
esVolta's 150MW/300MWh Desert Willow standalone BESS project, also in Texas. Image: esVolta.
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esVolta acquires 300MWh ERCOT BESS from Black Mountain Energy Storage

March 27, 2025
California-headquartered developer esVolta has acquired a 150MW/300MWh standalone BESS in Texas, US, from Black Mountain Energy Storage (BMES).

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