Iberdrola Australia has officially opened its 65MW/130MWh Smithfield BESS in western Sydney, New South Wales, ahead of schedule.

NSW concludes Australia’s largest LDES tender, awarding six battery projects 12GWh. Industry calls it “game-changer” for grid reliability.

ASL (formerly AEMO Services) has completed New South Wales’ (NSW) largest-ever tender for long-duration energy storage (LDES), contracting six new battery projects for a combined 1.17GW/11.98GWh.

More BESS news from across Europe, with ContourGlobal and Alpiq striking sizeable deals in Greece and France, Iberdrola putting projects into operation in Spain, and other project news in Germany, Poland, Denmark and Southeast Europe.

Spanish utility Iberdrola has acquired the 270MW/1,080MWh Tungkillo battery energy storage system (BESS) in South Australia from RES Group.

Spanish utility Iberdrola and power conversion specialist firm Ingeteam have partnered to hybridise Spanish operational PV plants with battery energy storage systems (BESS).

A 130MWh battery energy storage system owned by the Australian arm of Iberdrola has officially entered AEMO’s Market Management System.

India and Spain both saw major developments in their respective pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) sectors yesterday (26 September).

The Australian arm of Spain-based utility and IPP Iberdrola has started building a solar-plus-storage project with a 180MW/260MWh BESS in Queensland.

Utility and independent power producer (IPP) Iberdrola will deploy battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in Spain adding up to 150MW/300MWh, to be co-located with existing PV plants.