EnergyAustralia has filed planning applications for four-hour duration large-scale lithium BESS in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley.

MidAmerican’s plan to continue burning coal at five Iowa power plants environmentally harmful, more costly than low-carbon alternatives.

EnergyAustralia is tentatively planning to build a 500MW battery energy storage system (BESS) on land it owns in New South Wales.

Neoen has proposed building a gigawatt-scale BESS in a region of Australia with close and continuing ties to the coal industry.

The US Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) has included energy storage into its market portfolio for the first time.

Vistra Energy will have more than 1,213MW of battery storage in operation in its portfolio by 2026, the US power generation company has claimed.

The first 500MWh of SMC Global Power’s battery storage portfolio has been installed.

As the role of coal declines and ends in Australia’s NEM, huge growth in dispatchable energy storage capacity will be needed in the mix.

Hornsdale Power Reserve in South Australia has been fined for breaching National Electricity Rules over a three month period in 2019.  

Australia’s Clean Energy Council calls for an energy storage target, while arguing that a plans for a capacity mechanism should be scrapped.