Activity in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) continues to accelerate, with two separate c.600MWh projects completed in Bulgaria by Solarpro & CATL and Sunotec and Sungrow, plus around 800MWh of capacity progressed across Romania, Estonia, Lithuania, and Finland.
Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) in Australia has set out its requirements for lithium-ion battery storage rooms and diesel generator structures in data centres.
Neoen Australia has signed virtual battery agreements with energy retailers Nectr and SmartestEnergy for Stages 2 and 3 of the Western Downs Battery in Queensland.
Wärtsilä spinning out its energy storage activities and divesting a 50% stake this week reflects difficulties in making the business profitable and synergistic within the wider group activities, analysts said.
Developers of battery storage projects across Southeast Asia must heed lessons learned elsewhere and engage with key stakeholders as early as possible, Energy-Storage.news has heard.
Energy Dome is advancing a 10-hour CO2 Battery project in Arizona, with SRP and Google, while Invinity announces the sale of North America’s largest VRFB, in California.
Ontario, Canada’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) has secured 640MW of new capacity through three projects selected under the capacity stream of the Second Long-Term Request for Proposals (LT2).
Virginia’s biggest standalone BESS comes online, Cypress Creek raises funding for a gigawatt-scale hybrid resource, and Kore Power’s mobile solutions subsidiary is sold, in this edition of news in brief.