Acen Australia has submitted a 320MW solar-plus-storage project featuring a 1,400MWac battery energy storage system (BESS) in New South Wales to Australia’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act.

ACWA Power has agreed to deploy wind energy and battery capacity to help power what is claimed will be the Middle East and Africa region’s ‘first battery gigafactory.’

The UK has confirmed a new scheme aiming to stimulate investment in the country’s long-duration energy storage (LDES) sector.

Our interview with Salim Mazouz, one of the designers of Australia’s Capacity Investment Scheme (CIS) concludes.

The Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) of Thailand will assess the feasibility of energy storage business models in partnership with a subsidiary of state-owned oil & gas company PTT Group.  

This Friday Briefing looks at the rich prospects for putting batteries onto brownfield power plant sites, with regard to news stories from South Africa and New England, US.

The German government published a strategy for electricity storage in December, with a comment period for trade associations closing yesterday (16 January).

Australia runs a great risk of failing to meet its ambitious but achievable renewable energy goals, writes Stephanie Bashir, CEO of Nexa Advisory, who explains why utility-scale energy storage is among the crucial tools in the country’s energy transition toolkit.

This Friday Briefing looks at the IEA’s recognition that long-duration energy storage will be essential to global decarbonisation and asks what it might take for that message to translate into immediate action.

The UK government’s recently announced national Battery Strategy was intended as a roadmap to establishing a competitive value chain.