Construction has begun on a 150MW / 150MWh battery storage project at the site of a former fossil fuel plant site in Victoria, Australia.

The CEO of Key Capture Energy has said the company will immediately be able to apply lessons learned from a 20MW battery project in New York to its pipeline of much bigger projects in the state to come. 

Australian power retail and generation company AGL has broken ground on a 250MW / 250MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in South Australia. 

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Battery capacity has started to come online at what is claimed to be the world’s largest project to combine solar PV and battery storage at the same site, in California. 

US$219 million of financing has been secured by developer Plus Power for the 185MW / 565MWh Kapolei Energy Storage (KES) project in O’ahu, Hawaii. 

Efforts by the Chilean government and US-headquartered energy infrastructure company AES Corporation will boost the Latin American country’s installed base of battery storage. 

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A 1,200 hectare site in South Australia has been secured by a developer hoping to use it to build a 300MW solar power site with 3.6GWh of energy storage, based on a novel technology solution. 

Wärtsilä has given details of the energy storage system it will supply to utility company Bahamas Power & Light (BPL).