With the opening of the Capacity Investment Scheme (CIS) tender 3 in Australia last Wednesday (13 November), one major question from the state allocations presented in the market briefing was why Queensland had been granted no capacity.

The government of Cyprus has confirmed financial support will be made available for renewable energy projects paired with energy storage.

A flurry of news on DOE Loan Programs Office project loans could show a rush to get deals done before Trump’s administration takes office.

Last week (7 November) saw bids opened for a 75MW/300MWh BESS tender launched by the government of Honduras, in Central America.

Global decarbonisation targets are impossible without increasing the pace of long-duration energy storage (LDES) adoption 50 times over by 2040, according to the LDES Council.

Progress on another US Department of Energy (DOE) loan for the battery sector has been announced, this time by NeoVolta, the third in the space of a week since the US election.

Following the Trump victory in the 2024 US presidential election, Energy-Storage.news has gathered analysts’ and industry comments.  

India Grid Trust (IndiGrid) and development finance institutions from Great Britain and Norway have launched a transmission and battery storage development platform.

Developer Rolwind has won a favourable environmental impact assessment (EIA) result for a 200MW/800MWh BESS in Spain, the first standalone one to do so and the largest in the country, it claimed.

National deployment targets should be set for energy storage technologies, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Coalition for Action has said.