Jennifer Downing, senior advisor to the Loan Programs Office at the US Department of Energy (DOE) and author of a recent report into virtual power plant technology, speaks to Energy-Storage.news.

National Grid is set to accelerate the connection of up to 10GW of battery energy storage projects in England and Wales.

Developer Flexen has put 1GW of standalone battery energy storage system (BESS) projects into the interconnection queue in Chile, the first of that scale in the country, the firm claimed.

CEE-based developer and independent power producer (IPP) Woodburn Capital is deploying a co-located battery storage project in Croatia, with final regulations around connecting batteries to the grid expected imminently.

A recent draft final rule on reforms of grid interconnection processes from US regulator FERC has been welcomed by the energy storage industry, although many hurdles still remain.

The US saw roughly triple the amount of grid-scale battery storage installed in the second quarter of this year as it did in the preceding quarter, in megawatt terms.

State-sponsored investment fund NY Green Bank, will lend US$25 million to NineDot Energy, a developer of energy storage systems in New York.

RWE has brought its biggest utility-scale BESS project in the US closer to the start of commercial operations.

After a record-breaking year in 2022, the US energy storage industry has seen second successive quarter of declines in installation figures.