Victoria achieved a new BESS discharge and charge record over the weekend, with 693.5MW and -704.8MW, respectively.

Rob Hills, APAC vice-president of engineering and commissioning, Fluence, explains the potential of BESS as virtual transmission in Australia.

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has launched a US$280 million initiative to help low-income residents of the state install battery storage and solar panel systems.

Battery energy storage system (BESS) integrator and technology provider Powin is at risk of shutting down its business within weeks.

Rept Battero and Hyosung Heavy Industries have agreed to jointly promote energy storage system (ESS) technologies in global markets.

Two BESS have been submitted to Australia’s EPBC Act, totalling a potential 3,400MWh of energy storage in Queensland and New South Wales.

Zinc hybrid cathode battery and storage system maker Eos has secured an order with Faraday Microgrids to deploy a 3MW/15MWh system on tribal land in California, US.

Developer Leeward Renewable Energy’s (LRE) 126MW/504MWh Antelope Valley battery energy storage system (BESS), located in Kern County, California, has reached commercial operations.

The government of South Africa has revealed the preferred bidders in the third window of its Battery Energy Storage Independent Power Procurement Programme (BESIPPPP), with IPPs Mulilo and Scatec winning the projects.

Sumitomo Electric has inaugurated a vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) system at a community solar microgrid in southern Japan.