Gravity energy storage company Energy Vault’s battery storage division has been contracted to work on a 250MW two-hour duration project at a solar PV plant in Victoria, Australia.

Powin Energy has entered a partnership with developer Akaysha Energy to deploy battery storage systems in Australia.

ArcLight views its portfolio of existing thermal power plant assets as “excellent potential locations for battery projects”.

News in brief, from another busy week for our colleagues reporting on the UK battery storage market at Solar Power Portal.

Westbridge has added another large-scale solar-plus-storage project to its development portfolio in Alberta, Canada.

A 200MW BESS to be located in Lancashire, northern England, has secured planning permission.

Saft has completed another project in France for parent company TotalEnergies.

Pivot Power has secured planning permission for two 50MW/100MWh lithium-ion battery storage sites in the UK.

Origin Energy has outlined how a virtual power plant (VPP) and large-scale battery storage will allow it to replace coal.

Although different energy storage technologies are often thought of as in competition with each other, it’s a case of all-hands-on-deck if we are to achieve deployment targets.