Existing assets can provide crucial benchmarks in sizing and other crucial battery storage design decisions, writes Ashutosh Vats, head of BESS business development at 3E.

This edition of news in brief from around the world in energy storage features Engie, Econergy and Inion Software in Central and Eastern Europe.

Pakistan’s National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has approved plans to require bidders in a renewable energy auction to include energy storage.

In this news roundup, Eos and WATTMORE; Gotion and Gamma Technologies; Middle River Power and PowerTransitions; and Electra AI and MinTech are advancing battery energy storage system (BESS) technology in the US.

DC-coupled solar-plus-storage projects can reduce the time needed for grid connection approval compared with AC-coupled designs.

Danske Commodities will optimise a BESS project that developer-operator BeGreen has added to a solar PV plant in Denmark, which the trading house already operates for BeGreen. 

Windlab and Squadron Energy have referred a 500MW BESS at the Bungaban solar-plus-storage project in Queensland for approval.

APA Group has taken a final investment decision to construct, own and operate the 104MWh Sybella Creek solar-plus-storage site in Australia.

Squadron Energy has completed a refinancing of its Australian renewable energy portfolio, securing total debt commitments of more than AU$2.7 billion (US$1.76 billion).

Australian developer Edify Energy has reached financial close on the Ganymirra and Majors Creek solar-plus-storage projects near Townsville in North Queensland, featuring 360MWp of solar generation and 300MW/1,200MWh of battery storage.