A battery storage system in the UK has begun delivery of reactive power services, claimed as a world first contract of its kind.

A solicitation for large-scale energy storage could be hosted in about a year’s time as part of the push towards New York achieving its target of deploying 6GW of energy storage on the grid by 2030.

Luna Battery Storage, a 100MW/400MWh BESS project in California, is now online and serving community choice aggregator Clean Power Alliance.

Neoen saw its energy storage revenues triple in the first half of this year, driven by its Victorian Big Battery in Australia.

Innergex has completed a BESS project in France, using a solution designed by a subsidiary of utility Hydro-Québec.

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

Gresham House expects to earn more than US$144 million revenues from Capacity Market contracts.

The award of contracts to 1GW of battery storage was the “biggest news” to emerge from the latest round of Capacity Market auctions held in the UK.

A number of core challenges remain for lenders in the energy storage market, not least the relative nascency of it.

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