Arclight Capital Partners has committed US$150 million to its energy storage platform Elevate Renewable Energy for deploying battery storage alongside its legacy thermal plant portfolio.

Centrica to repurpose a former gas-fired power plant to include 28MW BESS and potential to develop off-grid hydrogen production and solar.

Shell Energy Australia will build, own and operate a planned 500MW/1,000MWh battery storage asset at former coal plant.

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.