News in brief from around the world in energy storage.

RWE’s largest battery storage project to date has entered full operations in County Monaghan, Ireland.

Programmes to provide home energy storage solutions to low-income homes and businesses have been launched in Washington D.C and Connecticut by Electriq Power and Generac/PosiGen, respectively.

Google hails project to retrofit data centre with battery storage as a step towards rolling out similar solutions across global fleet.

Construction will commence in New Zealand on the country’s biggest battery energy storage system (BESS) project so far, in July.

Honeywell and Duke Energy will jointly develop and deliver microgrid solutions to US cities.

Hybrid projects in Australia have enabled a gold mine and a remote township to run at 50% or more average penetration of renewable energy. 

Energy storage can improve power quality and reduce electricity costs for industrial entities in Mexico.

Guidehouse Insights says that the annual power capacity deployments of battery-based residential energy storage systems (RESS) are expected to grow at a CAGR of 21.3% from 2021 to 2030 globally.

Swell Energy, a US company specialising in virtual power plant (VPP) projects aggregating residential solar PV and battery storage, has launched a distributed energy resources management system (DERMS) software platform.