Zenobē has begun construction on three battery storage projects in Scotland which will total £750 million (US$892 million) of investment.

Construction has begun on battery storage project to demonstrate advanced inverter technology, in historic mining region of Broken Hill, New South Wales.

News of major project acquisitions in another busy week for the UK battery storage market.

Alongside unveiling of an energy storage deployment target, Victoria government announced funding for large-scale battery storage projects.

A state-owned power company has begun the construction phase of a 35MW grid-scale battery storage project in Australia’s Northern Territory.

Alfen has been contracted to supply a battery energy storage system (BESS) in Sweden for electricity network company Ellevio.

Hornsdale Power Reserve battery storage system in South Australia now has upgraded capabilities, enabling it to provide inertia to the grid.

Tesla has been contracted to provide 300MWh of its Megapack BESS for projects in development by Edify Energy in Australia. 

Blair Reynolds, SMA America’s product manager for energy storage, discusses the role inverter-based renewable and storage technologies can play in maintaining grid stability.

Breakthrough Energy Ventures was among investors in a Series C funding round for Reactive Technologies, a company which has developed a means to measure “fundamental grid stability parameters in real-time,” offering visibility to renewable energy and energy storage asset developers and system planners.