The latest Firm Dispatchable Renewable Energy (FDRE) tender, hosted by the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), has selected winners.

The Board of Supervisors at California’s San Diego County voted to establish standards for the siting of battery storage facilities at a meeting held 17 July 2024, following two recent fires.

Australian utility Origin Energy has approved the second stage of the Eraring battery energy storage project in New South Wales, Australia.

Japan is one of the most talked-about emerging grid-scale energy storage markets in Asia, and featured prominently at the Energy Storage Summit Asia.

Eku Energy has seen its development application for a 250MW/500MWh BESS in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), approved.

The Energy Research and Development Division of the California Energy Commission (CEC) has issued a report highlighting the importance of energy storage facilities with a discharge duration of eight hours or more in order for the Golden State to reach its target of a zero-carbon electricity grid by 2045. 

The US Department of Energy has issued a loan of up to US$861.3 million to support 200MW solar PV and 285MW/1,140MWh BESS in Puerto Rico.

The CPUC has proposed the procurement of over 10GW of new energy resources, including 1GW of multi-day long-duration energy storage (LDES) and another 1GW of 12-hour-plus LDES.

The Japanese government has published the list of battery aggregators that successfully applied to a scheme to promote energy storage systems.

Rounding up a busy week’s worth of energy storage activity from the UK market, as reported by our colleagues at Solar Power Portal.