Senators in Maine are considering legislation to accelerate energy storage development, including a focus on who is allowed to own resources placed on transmission and distribution grids.

Australia and New York are two very different places but both are likely to soon see their first government-backed tenders in which grid-scale energy storage can compete.

New York’s recently proposed programme to promote the deployment of energy storage has been well-designed to create a robust market in the state for everything from residential to large-scale.