A total of 26 battery energy storage projects in Japan have been selected for contracts through the Long-Term Decarbonisation Power Source Auction (LTDA) for 2024.

The commercial and industrial (C&I) energy storage market is experiencing rapid growth as industries worldwide focus on decarbonisation and energy efficiency.

Atlas Renewable Energy has inaugurated a 200MW/800MWh BESS project in Chile, which it claimed is the ‘first large-scale standalone BESS’ in the country and the wider Latin American region.

National and regional agencies in India tendered for 9.5GW of utility-scale ESS in Q1 2025, more than two-thirds for standalone systems.

Australia’s MGA Thermal has completed what it claims is the world’s first industrial steam heat energy storage demonstrator project.

Australian renewables developer Edify Energy submits 180MWh solar-plus-storage site in New South Wales to Australia’s EPBC Act.

The development of large-scale battery storage projects continues to face opposition from local communities in parts of New York, US.

Flow battery startup Quino Energy and developer Long Hill Energy Partners have been awarded US$10 million in grant funding by the California Energy Commission (CEC) to support a 8MWh flow battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Lancaster, California, US.

Trina Storage has partnered with system integrator FlexGen on a 371MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project for developer SMT Energy in Houston, Texas, US.    

Australian energy infrastructure company Jemena has switched on two new 400kWh community batteries in Bellfield and Coburg in Victoria, Australia.