The California Energy Commission (CEC) has approved the participation of aggregated home batteries in demand response programme.

Pre-construction activities commenced this week on Rangebank BESS, a 200MW/400MWh project in Victoria, Australia.

Convergent Energy and Power has brought online a battery storage project for New York utility O&R which will reduce the need for more expensive network upgrades.

As distributed energy resources such as residential solar rooftop increase in the next decade, aggregation into virtual power plants could save US utilities up to US$35 billion, according to The Brattle Group.

In an effort to drive the country to deploying more energy storage, the Israeli Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure has announced four large-scale battery storage projects.

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

Maoneng joint venture has begun work on a 240MW/480MWh battery energy storage system project in Mornington Peninsula region of Victoria.

Fluence and Siemens Smart Infrastructure have completed a renewable energy microgrid project on Terceira, a Portuguese Azores island.

Ministry of Power has issued guidelines for the adoption of PHES as a key technology for India’s renewable energy ambitions.

Multiple steps forward have been taken in Ontario in the development of Canada’s largest battery storage project to date.