China has published a national plan to promote large-scale energy storage facilities, encouraging investment and broader participation in the electricity market.
Chinese PV module manufacturer Trina Solar has received the green light from the Victoria government in Australia to build a 500MW/1,000MWh battery energy storage system (BESS).
Australia’s Capacity Investment Scheme (CIS) has awarded 4.13GW/15.37GWh of battery storage capacity in its third tender round, exceeding initial targets and attracting 135GWh of bids.
Chinese energy storage companies active in the US face an uncertain future as federal policies encourage moves to reduce their supply chain involvement.
President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., was in attendance as the country’s first ‘baseload’ power plant to combine solar PV and battery storage officially went into action.
The Town of Ulster in New York has received a request from local officials of the neighbouring town of Hurley to temporarily suspend the permitting process of a 250MW/1,000MWh BESS project under development by independent power producer (IPP) Terra-Gen.
IPP DTEK Group and system integrator Fluence have together put a 200MW/400MWh BESS portfolio in Ukraine into commercial operation, a milestone praised by the country’s energy minister Svitlana Grinchuk.
Two energy storage topics appeared to come up in conversation more than any other at the first day of RE+: US domestic content and the race for energy density increases.
California community choice aggregator (CCA) Orange County Power Authority (OCPA) and independent power producer NextEra Energy Resources (NEER) have agreed on the terms of a flexible offtake agreement relating to a 115MW/460MWh standalone BESS.
Emerging tech must prove it can outcompete the incumbent, writes Sightline Climate analyst Lukas Karapin-Springorum, outlining the state of play in LDES technology today.
