Key contracts have been awarded in Queensland, Australia, to work on what would be the world’s largest pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) plant.

Eesti Energia, a utility based in Estonia, will install the country’s first grid-scale battery energy storage system (BESS).

Justin Rangooni, executive director of trade association Energy Storage Canada (ESC) takes us through some of the key developments to date.

A large-scale pumped hydro energy storage project in Washington State has passed a key stage of approvals, while another in South Dakota has been dropped.

Energy firm EnBW has been given the go-ahead to start work on a pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) project in Germany.

Conglomerate GE will provide six 37MW turbines for a pumped hydro energy storage plant in the Spanish overseas territory of Gran Canaria.

National science agency CSIRO has said Australia needs multiple energy storage technologies at massive scale to achieve its transition.

UK utility SSE has put £100 million (US$123 million) into its Coire Glas pumped hydro project in Scotland for pre-construction activities, but said that new policy is needed for it go to final investment decision (FID).

The government of New Zealand considering viability of pumped hydro among its options to plug energy deficits of between 3TWh and 5TWh.

rPlus Hydro has submitted a Final License Application for a pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) plant in Nevada, US, its second Application in 2023.