Last coal-fired power station in New Jersey demolished, with facility’s owner committing to deploying energy storage at the site.

Approval granted in Australia for the first battery storage project to share grid connection point with an existing generation asset in National Electricity Market.

Neoen has signed connection agreement for renewables project in South Australia where company intends to deploy large-scale battery system.

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.