Quebec-based IPP Boralex and Six Nations of the Grand River Development Corporation (SNGRDC) have announced the closing of a CA$202 million (US$145.12 million) financing for a 125MW/500MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Oxford County, Ontario, CA.

The project represents a US$128.6 million investment and is scheduled to begin construction this year, with commercial operations commencing in December 2026.

China’s biggest energy storage companies were out in force at a recent trade expo in Beijing, with integrated offerings, bigger battery cells, data centre solutions and sodium-ion products among the new products and tech on show.

IPP Neoen will start construction on large-scale BESS projects in France and Japan in the coming months.

FlexGen has acquired CES, which has to date commissioned more than 15GWh of battery energy storage system (BESS) projects.  

The NSW IPC has approved Spark Renewables’ Dinawan Solar Farm, an 800MW solar project paired with a 356MW/1,574MWh BESS.

The Reno Planning Commission, in Nevada, US, recommended approval for a conditional-use permit for the 200MW Trego Grid energy storage project on 4 March.

In this news roundup, Aypa power upsizes its credit facility, Georgia Power begins construction on a 260MW BESS, and IOWN Energy on behalf of Eolus sells a 506MWh BESS to DESRI

SSE Renewables, Matrix Renewables, Drax and Voltaria have all progressed large-scale BESS projects in the UK, all-in-all totalling 1.8GWh of new capacity.

Eora Energy has officially launched in Australia and is positioning itself as a challenger in the vanadium redox flow battery market.