New Zealand energy storage company ArcActive has switched on a pilot lead-acid BESS in Victoria, Australia, with support from Origin Energy.

Dan Taylor, director of engineering at optimisation and asset management provider Arenko, speaks to Energy-Storage.news about all things data in battery energy storage systems (BESS).

US energy storage developer Flatiron Energy has closed on approximately US$850 million for its 1,200MWh Energizar energy storage project in Chelsea, Massachusetts, US.

Australian energy company AGL has referred a 500MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Queensland to the federal government under Australia’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act.

Energy storage owner-operator Nightpeak Energy has reached financial close and commercial operation on its 150MW/300MWh Bocanova 2 battery storage project in Brazoria County, Southeast Texas.

From the Midwest to New York, local and state governments are introducing new zoning rules and restrictions on BESS and data centre projects.

How similar is the technology of Exa Energy, which just connected a 100MW/1GWh carbon dioxide-based energy storage system to the grid in China, to that of Energy Dome?  

960MWh Summerfield BESS in South Australia enters commissioning, while Gotion starts building the 843MWh Lower Wonga project in Queensland.

ASL has set a target of 1,500MW of new firming infrastructure in NSW by the end of May 2033 and opened a consultation on the tender.

The expert judges’ difficult decisions to select winners from hundreds of worthy entries for the Energy Storage Awards 2026 are almost finalised.