French independent power producer (IPP) Neoen Australia has begun construction of a 215MW/963MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) at its 440MWp Culcairn Solar Farm in New South Wales, Australia.

BlackRock-backed developer Akaysha Energy has announced that its 1,660MWh Orana BESS has reached commercial operations in Australia.

Envision has signed a 660MWh BESS supply agreement with SOLA Group and construction company WBHO in South Africa’s Free State.

Australian utility AGL Energy has submitted a 100MWh BESS in New South Wales for federal environmental assessment under the EPBC Act.

OptiGrid’s Sahand Karimi examines why state of charge & algorithm quality drove divergent outcomes during SA1’s AU$20,300/MWh price cap on 21 June.

IPP Enlight Renewable Energy has announced that its US subsidiary Clēnera Holdings has entered into a debt financing framework agreement for the CO Bar Complex in Arizona, US.

Goldwind Capital has submitted the Milpulling Wind Farm, a 1GWh wind-plus-storage site for assessment under Australia’s EPBC Act.

In this US news roundup, e-Storage, Spearmint Energy, and OCI Energy advance battery energy storage system (BESS) projects and financing in Michigan and Texas.

AEMO has set out a storage requirement of almost 50GW in its latest 2026 Integrated System Plan (ISP), split between 35GW of short and medium-duration battery storage for daily firming and 5GW of long-duration energy storage (LDES) for seasonal reliability.

US utility Dominion Energy Virginia (DEV) is issuing a request for information (RFI) for information on long-duration energy storage (LDES) technologies.