Sumitomo Electric has inaugurated a vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) system at a community solar microgrid in southern Japan.

The Queensland government has continued its hard stance on renewables and energy storage by revoking permission to build a 450MW wind-plus-storage facility.

German companies Energieversorgung Beckum (evb), Westenergie and E.ON Energy Solutions (ESY) have launched construction on a 2.75-hour BESS project in Beckum, Germany, and offered local citizens a chance to invest in it.

Western Australia and Victoria’s AusNet have provided financial aid to support battery energy storage systems (BESS) in the energy transition and community energy resiliency.

As the year draws to a close, we look back at some of the brilliant Guest Blog contributions published on Energy-Storage.news in the last 12 months.

Energy storage developer NineDot Energy has secured financing from investors including Manulife Investment Management to progress its pipeline of New York projects.

Syncarpha Capital enters partnership for solar and solar-plus-storage in New England, with Rosemawr Sustainable Infrastructure Management.

Tesla Energy has begun an initiative to install its V3 solar roof tiles and Powerwall 2 residential battery storage systems for what has been dubbed a “solar neighbourhood” at homes in a new development in Austin, Texas.

Energy storage developer Convergent Energy + Power has signed a long-term agreement with grocery store chain Tops Friendly Market for three large-scale community solar-plus-storage facilities in upstate New York.

A roundup of news in brief from one of the world’s hottest markets for energy storage – Australia.