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AGL's 53MW solar PV plant at Broken Hill. Image: AGL Energy.

AGL begins construction of Broken Hill ‘grid-forming’ BESS in Australia

November 10, 2022
Construction has begun on battery storage project to demonstrate advanced inverter technology, in historic mining region of Broken Hill, New South Wales.
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Westbridge gets approval for Alberta solar-plus-storage project with 100MW/200MWh BESS

November 8, 2022
Westbridge Renewable Energy has received approval for one of its four large-scale solar-plus-storage projects in Alberta, Canada.
New Zealand's first megawatt-scale Tesla BESS, inaugurated in 2016. Image: Vector Energy

New Zealand’s first 100MW grid-scale battery storage project gets approval

November 7, 2022
Development approvals have been granted for New Zealand’s biggest planned battery energy storage system (BESS) to date.
A rendering of an Eolian-Able Grid project in Texas, which Wartsila is providing BESS equipment to. Image: Wartsila.

Ohio Power Siting Board gives approval for state’s first grid-scale battery storage project  

November 2, 2022
Ohio Power Siting Board has given approval to a large-scale standalone battery energy storage system (BESS) project for the first time.
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UK Roundup: 550MW of BESS acquired by FRV, NESF, Gore Street

October 31, 2022
News of major project acquisitions in another busy week for the UK battery storage market.
Sembcorp has been involved with UK BESS projects like the one pictured, which uses Fluence's containerised battery units. Image: Sembcorp.

Southeast Asia’s biggest battery storage system to go online in Singapore next month

October 28, 2022
Electricity Market Authority confirmed the Southeast Asia region’s largest battery storage project on course for commissioning in November.
Graphite Solar in Utah's Carbon County, one of the other two solar projects the pair have contracted for. The 104MWdc/80MWac project, owned by Greenbacker and developed by rPlus, recently went into commercial operation. Image: Greenbacker.

rPlus Energies, Pacificorp sign PPA for Utah solar-plus-storage plant

October 27, 2022
rPlus Energies has signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) for 400MWac/200MW solar-plus-storage project in Emery County, Utah.
Original design rendering of Energy Vault's gravity storage tech, which was used at one commercial demonstrator in Switzerland. Image: Energy Vault.

Energy Vault working on 500MWh battery project for Australian solar power plant

October 27, 2022
Gravity energy storage company Energy Vault’s battery storage division has been contracted to work on a 250MW two-hour duration project at a solar PV plant in Victoria, Australia.
The grid-stabilising BESS (pictured during construction) is at the site of Tonga Power's Popua Power Station, with the other at a separate site on Tongatapua. Image: Tonga Power.

Tonga’s first large-scale battery systems take country closer to achieving NDC climate targets  

October 25, 2022
The first utility-scale battery project in Tonga officially opened today at an event attended by the South Pacific Kingdom’s prime minister.
Image: National Grid Renewables.

Hershey signs PPA with National Grid Renewables for Texas solar-plus-storage project

October 21, 2022
National Grid Renewables has signed a 140MW power purchase agreement (PPA) with chocolate makers The Hershey Company.

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