Whitehaven Energy, a subsidiary of coal producer Whitehaven Coal and renewable energy generator and retailer Pacific Blue, landed key milestones in developing solar-plus-storage projects in Australia last week.

Last week (7 November) saw bids opened for a 75MW/300MWh BESS tender launched by the government of Honduras, in Central America.

Energy-Storage.news delves into the Marinus Link and how the 1.5GW interconnector could facilitate Tasmania’s ‘Battery of the Nation’ goal.

Developer Rolwind has won a favourable environmental impact assessment (EIA) result for a 200MW/800MWh BESS in Spain, the first standalone one to do so and the largest in the country, it claimed.

National deployment targets should be set for energy storage technologies, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Coalition for Action has said.

Large-scale energy storage reaching financial commitment increased 95% year-on-year in Australia in Q3 2024, reaching just under 4GWh.

The Australian Energy Regulator (AER) said increased energy storage capacity will be essential to manage daily and seasonal variations in output on the National Electricity Market (NEM).

Saudi Arabia’s government entity tasked with procuring electricity generation projects has commenced the qualification process for a 2GW/8GWh battery storage tender.

The newly elected Queensland government has pulled the plug on what would have been the world’s largest pumped hydro energy storage project (PHES) with a capacity of 120GWh.

ACWA Power has agreed to deploy wind energy and battery capacity to help power what is claimed will be the Middle East and Africa region’s ‘first battery gigafactory.’