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Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman (centre) unveiling the 2023-2024 budget this time last year, in New Delhi. Image: Union Gov't of India.

India’s national budget includes viability gap funding for 4GWh of energy storage

February 1, 2023
India has committed to helping fund 4,000MWh of battery storage in its Union Budget and will come up with support mechanisms for pumped hydro.
Major BESS projects internationally, including the Victorian Big Battery in Australia (pictured) and Zenobe's upcoming project in Scotland are providing inertia via their inverters. Image: Victoria State government.

Hope for large-scale tenders to drive forward energy storage’s role in the energy transition

February 1, 2023
Australia and New York are two very different places but both are likely to soon see their first government-backed tenders in which grid-scale energy storage can compete.
Rendering of the MREH project in Victoria. Image: Equis.

Equis lodges application for 200MW/800MWh Queensland BESS project

January 31, 2023
Infrastructure developer and investor Equis is seeking approval for a 200MW/800MWh battery storage project in Queensland, Australia.
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Philippines DOE reveals draft energy storage market policy changes

January 30, 2023
The Philippines Department of Energy (DOE) has outlined new draft market rules and policies for energy storage, a month after the country allowed 100% foreign ownership of renewable energy assets.
Battery swap station for light-duty EVs in India. Image: Sun Mobility.

India’s Union Budget ‘should include tax breaks for energy storage’

January 30, 2023
India’s upcoming Union Budget should include tax-based incentives for energy storage, the India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA) has said.
MiRIS in Belgium, a pilot project that uses three different battery technologies for stationary storage: two different types of flow battery and lithium-ion battery storage. Image: Anthony Price / IFBF.

Industry group hails inclusion of flow batteries in EU’s ‘Battery Passport’

January 26, 2023
The European Union has resolved a glaring omission in the design of its forthcoming Battery Passport, according to Flow Batteries Europe.
A 1990s demonstration of vanadium flow technology, used on a golf cart at the University of New South Wales. Inventor Professor Maria Skyllas-Kazacos and engineer Dun Rui Hong from the team are on the left. Image: Courtesy of Maria Skyllas-Kazacos.

Australia’s first critical minerals plant to process vanadium, cobalt, silicon for clean energy

January 26, 2023
A demonstration facility to prove out Australia’s capabilities in critical minerals processing will be built in North Queensland.
Image: Enbridge via Twitter.

Oil & gas pipeline and transport company Enbridge gets local support for Ontario BESS projects

January 25, 2023
The local authority in an Ontario municipality has backed energy company Enbridge’s three battery storage projects in the Canadian province.
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First pumped hydro energy storage unit in Estonia given green light for construction

January 24, 2023
Construction on a 550MW/6GWh pumped hydro energy storage project in Estonia will begin in summer 2024 after it was given the green light by regulators.
"...unprecedented energy crisis we are facing shows that we need to make the electricity market design fit for the future," energy commissioner Kadri Simson (pictured in 2019), said. Image: European Parliament.

EU Electricity Market Design ‘needs to value energy storage and other flexibility options’

January 24, 2023
EU reforms of electricity market should recognise value of flexibility options like energy storage, according to representatives of Fluence.

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