The European Commission has approved a €1.2 billion (US$1.32 billion) state aid package for Poland to support the deployment of electricity storage facilities.

Sungrow has agreed to supply battery energy storage system (BESS) technology to a large-scale project in Malaysia, one of Southeast Asia’s biggest projects of its type.  

The Bulgarian Ministry of Energy has invited public comment on an initiative for tenders for 3GWh of renewable power and storage capacity.

ESB Networks has announced that Ireland’s electricity grid now has 1GW of energy storage available from different energy storage assets.

The largest battery storage facility in India is now online and was visited last week by the country’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.

Canadian energy company TC Energy has announced that its pumped hydro energy storage project in Ontario will soon receive a final evaluation from the Canadian Ministry of Energy.

The Philippines has turned its focus onto transitioning its energy sector to larger shares of renewable energy. Carlos Nieto of ABB writes about how the company delivered a 60MW battery storage project in alignment with that aim.

Nearly double the megawatt-hours of large-scale BESS under construction in Australia by the end of 2022 compared to 2021.

The US and the European Union have made a fresh pledge to support green energy in Africa.

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