An Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) programme to put AU$120 million (US$78.17 million) towards community battery storage received applications for more than ten times that amount.

An AU$120 million (US$81.34 million) government funding round has opened in Australia for community battery energy storage projects.

Australia’s budget includes nearly AU$25 billion for clean energy to ease cost of living pressures as well as help fight climate change.

The first battery energy storage system (BESS) in New York City using Tesla Megapacks, a 12MWh system in the Bronx by NineDot, has been inaugurated.

The government of Victoria, Australia, has opened a round of funding for ‘neighbourhood-scale’ battery storage.

The new edition of our quarterly journal PV Tech Power, volume 29, is now available to download, including our comprehensive cover story on solar’s critical next decade.

Horizon Power, an electricity supplier owned by the state government of Western Australia has begun commissioning community battery storage to allow nine remote towns to use more rooftop solar power. 

A five-year long project to trial the use of energy storage at community-scale in a Western Australian suburb achieved an 85% reduction in consumption of energy from the grid at peak times for participating households. 

This edition of news in brief from around the world in energy storage focuses on small-scale but potentially significant deployments.