News in brief from around the world in Energy Storage.

The first 500MWh of SMC Global Power’s battery storage portfolio has been installed.

As the role of coal declines and ends in Australia’s NEM, huge growth in dispatchable energy storage capacity will be needed in the mix.

ArcLight views its portfolio of existing thermal power plant assets as “excellent potential locations for battery projects”.

FREYR Battery will go ahead with construction of its first battery gigafactory in Norway, which has announced a National Battery Strategy.

Energy-Storage.news proudly presents this sponsored webinar with Clean Horizon, discussing the prime potential of energy storage in India.

News in brief, from another busy week for our colleagues reporting on the UK battery storage market at Solar Power Portal.

A pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) plant with a capacity of 20GWh in Valais, Switzerland, will begin operations on Friday, 1 July.

Energy Dome, an Italy-based company which has developed a novel CO2-based long-duration energy storage system, has closed an US$11 million bridge funding round.

Matthew Lumsden, CEO Connected Energy, talks us through scaling up the business in preparation for an EV boom from 2025 onwards.