EPEC Group has been awarded a contract to cover the high-voltage connection works for the Lower Wonga Solar Farm in Queensland, Australia, by the EPC contractor INTEC Energy Solutions.

Octopus Australia has shifted its focus to constructing a DC-coupled battery energy storage system (BESS) in Victoria.

Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks with Mona Dajani of law firm Cooley, about how FEOC has changed BESS project negotiations and financing.

Operators anticipate bringing an additional 54GW of battery storage capacity online over the next two and half years, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

Energy storage developer and system integrator Energy Vault has entered into a strategic agreement supporting hyperscaler AI data centres for a customer in Texas, US.

A round-up of news from Europe’s BESS market, which includes Encavis and OX2 in Italy and Sunotec in Bulgaria.

Danish investment firm Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has reached financial close of the La Esperanza Solar energy storage-plus-solar PV project in the state of Campeche on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.

Australia’s framework governing the energy obligations of large data centres advanced on multiple fronts last week.

Citicore has broken ground on the country’s first embedded solar integrated renewable energy and energy storage system (IRESS) facility.

In this news roundup, ACCURE, Hydrostor, Shoals and TerraFlow, and Qnetic claim significant advances in and for energy storage technology.