The Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) has given the green light to a solar and storage project from National Grid Renewables, with a 50MW battery energy storage system (BESS).
The Australian government is funding grid inertia measurement trial at the Victorian Big Battery, aiming to develop real-time, accurate assessments of the status of the network.
Enel Green Power will start building 1.6GW of battery storage projects in Italy this quarter, with the country’s utility-scale market expected to soar in the next three years.
The Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development in Croatia has issued a €60 million (US$66 million) Call for Funds which seeks projects for renewables, energy efficiency and energy storage totalling 20MWh.
The massive buildout of battery storage in the ERCOT, Texas market and the risk of market saturation was a huge talking point at Energy Storage Summit USA last month.