Powin Energy has signed its latest multiple gigawatt-hour deal, including supply of some of the cells for its Waratah Super Battery project.

Battery storage can give the millions of Australian households going solar “a sense of empowerment and control”.

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

The government of Bangladesh and potential investors into energy storage in the South Asian country were handed a European Union-funded roadmap for the technology’s development last week.

Japanese conglomerate Itochu is launching its first grid-scale BESS project with utility Osaka Gas and finance group Tokyo Century Leasing.

Australian Vanadium, targeting vertically integrated involvement in the flow battery market, has received the first payment from a government grant to support its manufacturing plans.

New South Wales has approved plans to increase maximum sizing of battery storage at what could be Australia’s largest project of its type.

A battery storage system made with second life EV batteries has been developed by carmaker Toyota and Japanese utility company Tokyo Electric Power.

UGL has been selected to design, test and commission a BESS which will provide power for BHP’s iron ore port in Western Australia.

Japan’s Marubeni Corporation working with Vietnamese battery and energy-as-a-service provider VinES to develop energy storage facilities.