Approval granted in Australia for the first battery storage project to share grid connection point with an existing generation asset in National Electricity Market.

The renewables arm of multinational energy firm Enel has started work on a project combining wind turbines and a 34MW battery energy storage system (BESS) in Chile.

European utility and power generation firm RWE is building two co-located energy storage projects totalling 10.6MW in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany.

Renewable energy developer Alight is adding a 2MW/2MWh battery system to a 12MW solar park in Sweden, creating the largest solar-plus-storage project in the country.

Chile looks set to pass major legislation incentivising the deployment of energy storage, after a draft bill passed the Senate yesterday.

Asset manager Foresight Group has invested in a co-located 1.6GWh pumped hydro energy storage and wind project in Scotland.

Danish energy company Ørsted will run a feasibility study on the deployment of a 20MW/200MWh energy storage system using Italian startup Energy Dome’s ‘CO2 Battery’ technology.

EDF Renewables North America has fully commissioned Palen Solar, a multi-stage solar PV project on public lands in California.

Another edition of our news in brief from the energy storage industry focusing on the bustling UK market.

Enel Green Power has completed a wind-plus-storage facility while RWE just installed all inverters on its own, both in Texas.