Microsoft, Meta, Fluence and other energy storage players have founded a consortium to assess the technology’s emissions reductions.

Neoen has proposed building a gigawatt-scale BESS in a region of Australia with close and continuing ties to the coal industry.

Eos Energy Enterprises has progressed to the due diligence stage in its application for a share of US$2.5 billion in US government loans.

Qcells has followed up the start of construction on its first-ever standalone BESS project with the announcement of three more projects.

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.