The European Union parliament has voted on amendments to REPowerEU which will see its accelerated permitting for renewable projects expanded to include standalone energy storage.

The hydropower subsidiary of General Electric’s renewables business has installed first pair of 300MW turbines at pumped hydro site in China.

Enough money invested in long-duration energy storage technologies and projects over the past three years to result in 57GW of deployments.

Australia will launch a scheme to incentivise investment in the right mix of low-carbon energy sources and energy storage.

Vistra Energy plans to build battery storage in place of retiring fossil fuel plants handed boost by FERC.

Industry should make “concrete proposals” for electricity market reforms, or risk policy and regulation continuing to fall short in valuing the role of energy storage.

European Union policymakers and regulators recognise that energy storage is vital to securing affordable and low carbon energy.

Second Renewable Energy Target auction held in Victoria, Australia, won by six solar PV projects, four of which include battery storage.

Queensland gets about 21% of its energy from renewables, but the state government has just set an increased target of 70% renewables by 2032.

Victoria, Australia, will target 6.3GW of renewable energy storage by 2035, one of the world’s most ambitious storage policy goals.