“This solution is fully bankable and financeable in the States,” says Terry Chen, VP of Trina Solar North America.

Spanish sustainable energy developer X-Elio is expanding a solar PV plant in Queensland, Australia, with the addition of battery storage.

Another edition of news in brief from the UK, as the National Energy System Operator pledges to improve Balancing Mechanism ‘skip rates’ and a 1GW project gets local authority approval.

Hyperstrong has inked a new deal with solar and energy-storage-as-a-service provider Tesseract ESS to explore opportunities in the Australian market.

Singapore’s government and Energy Market Authority have announced power sector and grid enhancements, including a possible expansion of Southeast Asia’s biggest battery storage plant.

Specialist renewable energy insurance company kWh Analytics considers thermal runaway to still be the single most important risk that energy storage system developers must consider.

Developer and IPP Elevate Renewables will deploy a grid-forming BESS at a fossil fuel peaker plant in Connecticut, US, with US$27.5 million from the Department of Energy (DOE).

Gore Street Energy Storage Fund will provide a Goldman Sachs subsidiary with power from its Big Rock BESS in California via a 12-year, fixed price Resource Adequacy (RA) contract.

While there is much more variety in the BESS supply landscape today, there are relatively few suppliers able to offer products for ‘grid-forming, enduring infrastructure assets’, developer and operator Dais Energy’s CEO said.

AI-driven asset management startup Proximal Energy has been selected by investor Excelsior Energy Capital to optimise a fleet of battery storage projects in the US.