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Sungrow’s BESS and grid-forming power conversion system (PCS) combined established system voltage within 19 seconds during black-start testing at the company’s newly established large-scale, plant-level grid-forming field test base.

Australia has installed 380,712 home battery storage systems, representing 10.7GWh of storage capacity, since the introduction of the Cheaper Home Batteries Program last year, Chris Bowen, Australia’s minister for climate change and energy, has disclosed.

Queensland has become the first state in Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM) to discharge over 100GWh from utility-scale battery storage systems in a single month.

Lithium-ion battery cell degradation is one of the things that makes BESS a more complicated asset to manage than other clean energy technologies.

US renewable energy developer, Longroad Energy’s Sun Pond solar-plus-storage project in Maricopa County, Arizona, US has reached commercial operation.

Second life battery storage firm Moment Energy has announced a US$40 million Series B funding round to accelerate its battery factory.

A quartet of Germany BESS project announcements: Green Flexibility has completed a project, Suncatcher has enlisted Statkraft to optimise three solar-plus-storage ones, SWB and Be.storaged are together building a system, while ArcelorMittal has enlisted EDF Power Solutions to do so.

Fortescue’s AI-enabled batteries stabilised its Pilbara mining grid without spinning generators, reversing electron flow in nanoseconds during disruption.

Fluence’s Daniel Elias explores why circular-economy principles and material recovery are essential as renewable energy infrastructure matures and reaches end of life.