A US battery storage pilot sponsored by tech giant Google has demonstrated how batteries can capture surplus renewable energy and deliver it during hours with greater fossil generation.

The US energy storage industry is targeting 225GW/1TWh of storage deployment by the end of 2032, according to an analysis published by the Energy Storage Coalition (ESC).

Existing assets can provide crucial benchmarks in sizing and other crucial battery storage design decisions, writes Ashutosh Vats, head of BESS business development at 3E.

Vishal Mittal, founder and CEO of Delectrik makes the case for flow batteries to meet India’s long-duration needs in an exclusive ESN Premium interview.

The Tailem Bend BESS 3 in South Australia and Wooreen BESS in Victoria have both entered the AEMO Market Management System (MMS).

Flow Power has broken ground on its 100MW/223MWh Bennetts Creek BESS in Victoria, its first large-scale standalone BESS project.

In this US news roundup, Eos has received an advance on its DOE loan, FlexGen and Lighshift have partnered on 16 BESS projects, and Georgia Power has energised a 128MW BESS.

US battery energy storage system (BESS) developer-operator Jupiter Power has closed a US$1.4 billion financing, supporting 10 US BESS projects totalling 3,600MWh of capacity.

A roundup of some of our key takeaways from the Energy Storage Summit Germany this week, including around FCAs, inertia, the capacity market (CM), EU restrictions on China, and the future of one very notable system integrator.

All BESS and demand response projects selected under ASL’s 2023 firming tender for New South Wales, Australia, are now operational.