Some 2,000 residential battery systems in Belgium have been aggregated into a virtual power plant (VPP) and are providing balancing services to transmission system operator Elia.

Battery storage in homes and at businesses contributed to helping the CAISO grid in California afloat during recent difficulties.

Sherif Abdelrazek from energy storage software company Storlytics on one of the major challenges still faced in the BESS space.

A large-scale sodium-sulfur (NAS) battery energy storage system made by NGK Insulators will be installed at a former LNG terminal in Japan.

This edition of news in brief comes from another busy week for our colleagues covering the UK energy transition.

Pattern Energy has achieved financial close on an offshore wind project in northern Japan to include a 100MW battery energy storage system.

US$16.6 million funding has been committed for five long-duration energy storage (LDES) projects in New York by the US state’s government.

Energy stored in batteries is being dispatched in large volumes in California as record-breaking hot weather brings crisis.  

The US Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) has included energy storage into its market portfolio for the first time.

The Q3 2022 edition of our journal PV Tech Power is now available to download, featuring in-depth coverage on the rise of solar-plus.