South Australia’s first Firm Energy Reliability Mechanism (FERM) tender has awarded agreements to six battery energy storage projects totalling 1,334MW and 5,336MWh.
Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) has opened two tenders seeking 2.5GW of renewable energy generation and 12GWh of long-duration energy storage, marking the largest generation procurement in the state’s history under its Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap.
Sumitomo Electric will supply a vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) energy storage system to enable grid integration of wind energy in Hokkaido, northern Japan.