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

TotalEnergies will deploy a solar PV and battery storage project at Holcim’s Portland Cement plant in Colorado.

The European Commission has approved a €103 million (US$125 million) package of direct grants from the government in Romania for battery storage projects.

Adopting an “agile working method” without taking any shortcuts on safety or other standards was crucial to DNV testing and certifying a 200MW battery project in Singapore in “record time”.

The Chile arm of global energy firm AES Corporation is looking to build another large co-located battery energy storage system (BESS), this time with a capacity of 2,710MWh.

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

A solar-plus-storage project combining 300kW of PV and a 2MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) has been installed in the Polynesian archipelago nation of Tonga.

Initial reaction to the European Commission’s proposal on Electricity Market Design reform has been largely positive.

Fluence and Siemens Smart Infrastructure have completed a renewable energy microgrid project on Terceira, a Portuguese Azores island.

The Netherlands needs 10GW of battery storage by 2030 and, while the market is being held back by onerous grid fees, developers like Lion Storage are working on deploying multi-hundred megawatt systems.