Neoen has proposed building a gigawatt-scale BESS in a region of Australia with close and continuing ties to the coal industry.

This edition of news in brief comes from another busy week for our colleagues covering the UK energy transition.

Qcells has closed a US$150 million financing deal for its first large-scale standalone battery energy storage system (BESS) project.

Luna Battery Storage, a 100MW/400MWh BESS project in California, is now online and serving community choice aggregator Clean Power Alliance.

Spanish multinational Naturgy has bought a large-scale hybrid solar-plus-storage project in development in Australia.

A state-owned power company has begun the construction phase of a 35MW grid-scale battery storage project in Australia’s Northern Territory.

Alfen has been contracted to supply a battery energy storage system (BESS) in Sweden for electricity network company Ellevio.

Proposals for two large-scale battery storage facilities have been put before decisionmakers on New York’s Long Island.

A 100MW/150MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) has been brought online in Queensland, Australia, by developer Vena Energy.

Key Capture Energy is approaching the final stages of construction of a battery storage system in New York that will inform how the developer approaches much bigger projects in the state.