Spanish developer and independent power producer (IPP) Zelestra has energised its 1GWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in the Atacama Desert in Chile.

Nickel-hydrogen battery company EnerVenue has announced a pilot battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Jintan, Changzhou, China.

Iberdrola Australia has submitted a 1,000MW battery energy storage system to Australia’s EPBC Act for federal environmental assessment.

Australia’s New South Wales has seen 532MW of firming projects contracted through its seventh infrastructure tender, securing two projects designed to strengthen electricity supply during periods of peak demand and system stress in the Sydney-Newcastle-Wollongong region.

Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks with Pat Wood III, co-chair at Pew Charitable Trusts about the company’s DER Policy Playbook

Long-duration energy storage (LDES) developer-operator Hydrostor intends to enter its compressed air storage project into Ontario, Canada’s recently announced LDES procurement.

Battery storage and pumped hydro projects in India, in this edition of news in brief from around the world in energy storage.

Developer Akaysha Energy has received federal environmental clearance for its 400MW/1,600MWh Glenrowan battery energy storage system (BESS) in Victoria, with the project deemed “not a controlled action” under Australia’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act.

Australia has clawed back AU$1.3 billion (US$940 million) in uncommitted clean energy manufacturing funding, with the Solar Sunshot Program and Battery Breakthrough Initiative among the programmes hit by budget cuts announced this week.

We catch up with Ingmar Wilhelm, co-founder and CEO of developer and IPP Galileo, after the firm commissioned its first own-operate renewable energy project.