South Korea last week launched a competitive solicitation for large-scale energy storage systems on Jeju Island, a southern province of the country.

Owner Vistra Energy has announced the completion of work to expand its Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility in California.

An Ameresco joint venture (JV) is delivering one of the biggest projects awarded a long-term contract in Ontario’s recent energy storage procurement.

New South Wales has approved plans to increase maximum sizing of battery storage at what could be Australia’s largest project of its type.

Oneida, which will mix long-term contracted revenues with merchant risk exposure in Ontario, Canada, has reached financial close.

Portland General Electric has procured 400MW of BESS resources split across two large-scale projects in the Oregon utility’s service area.

Neoen has been contracted by AGL to provide a “virtual” charge or discharge of a battery system in Australia. 

The award of contracts to 1GW of battery storage was the “biggest news” to emerge from the latest round of Capacity Market auctions held in the UK.

Progress has been made on 1.8GWh of battery energy storage projects in the service areas of California investor-owned utilities (IOUs) San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) and Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E).