A national solar energy industry association has criticised the UK government’s newly-released Battery Strategy for paying “insufficient attention” to opportunities presented by battery energy storage systems (BESS).

National Grid is set to accelerate the connection of up to 10GW of battery energy storage projects in England and Wales.

Developer Flexen has put 1GW of standalone battery energy storage system (BESS) projects into the interconnection queue in Chile, the first of that scale in the country, the firm claimed.

Amp Energy has made a grid connection agreement for a large-scale battery storage project in South Australia which has been welcomed by ministers in the state’s government.

CEE-based developer and independent power producer (IPP) Woodburn Capital is deploying a co-located battery storage project in Croatia, with final regulations around connecting batteries to the grid expected imminently.

Alex Thornton, operations director at Harmony Energy, gives us a deep dive into Pillswood, the biggest battery storage project in Europe.

The closure of UK battery storage specialist EPC and independent connection provider (ICP) firm G2 Energy has been confirmed by Companies House, with a senior manager describing “unsympathetic clients” in comments given to Energy-Storage.news and that the bulk of the team is joining outsourcing giant Mitie.

Reducing exposure to merchant risk is key to making banks comfortable with lending money for hybrid renewables-plus-storage projects.

Alberta “is a great place to do solar,” where growth of renewables is creating need to deploy energy storage for its integration to the grid.

Work is set to begin “within weeks” on a BESS project at the site of a coal power plant in New South Wales, Australia.