A plan to turn Australian island state Tasmania into the ‘Battery of the Nation’ has taken a step forwards.

The Biden administration plans to use the Cold War-era Defense Production Act to ramp up mining and processing for materials integral to batteries and renewable energy, like lithium, graphite, nickel, manganese and cobalt.

Update 5 April 2022: A Hyosung Heavy Industries representative told Energy-Storage.news the BESS will be 48MW rated output with 192MWh capacity.

Utility Hawaiian Electric has launched a 10-year programme of credits and incentives to its Battery Bonus scheme, which launched last year as a one-time cash incentive for adding battery storage to residential PV systems.

Enel X will participate in a pilot in Ontario aggregating behind-the-meter battery storage and demand response.

A 100MW/200MWh battery energy storage system comprising Tesla Megapacks will be built by a state-owned power company in Queensland.

India will not be able to meet its aim of becoming a global leader in battery manufacturing unless it establishes a value chain that embraces recycling.

The government of Kosovo this week announced it will build a battery energy storage system (BESS) with a capacity of 200MWh-plus to deal with the country’s energy crisis.

A 50MW/50MWh BESS will demonstrate the ability of smart inverter technologies to support the stability of the power grid in Australia. 

Four winners have been selected to receive financial incentives from India’s government, to support plans to build 50GWh annual manufacturing capacity of advanced batteries for EVs and ESS.