Another edition of our news in brief from the energy storage industry focusing on the bustling UK market.

Japanese financial services group Orix and regional utility company Kansai Electric building large-scale battery storage system.

Novel project in development in Australia combining CSP, molten silicon thermal storage, solar PV and grid-scale BESS appears to be revived.

Progress is being made at one of Australia’s biggest co-located solar and energy storage projects.

Fluence is forming a new company with independent power producer (IPP) ReNew Power, aimed at providing energy storage solutions in India.

News in brief from a busy week for the UK’s energy storage industry.

Global clean energy group TagEnergy and the UK’s Harmony Energy have announced two grid-scale battery storage projects in England and Scotland to be developed through the pair’s joint venture (JV). 

A new joint venture (JV) is evaluating building battery cell gigafactories in the US, based on advanced lithium-ion technologies, formed by investor Koch Strategic Platforms and manufacturer FREYR Battery. 

This edition of news in brief in energy storage comes from a busy week in the UK.

London Stock Exchange-listed solar PV investor NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF) has signed a £100 million (US$136.8 million) Joint Venture Partnership (JVP) with battery storage specialist Eelpower.