A state-owned solar-plus-storage project being developed in Mexico marks a shift in government thinking on energy storage, a local battery storage firm told Energy-Storage.news.

Battery storage developer Spearmint Energy has started building a 150MW/300MWh unit in the ERCOT, Texas market, its first project.

A 50MW/100MWh battery energy storage system, the largest in continental Europe, has been inaugurated in Belgium by developer Corsica Sole.

A 30MW battery energy storage system has been inaugurated by transmission system operator (TSO) ISA CTEEP in Brazil.

European utility and power generation firm RWE is building two co-located energy storage projects totalling 10.6MW in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany.

Asset manager BlackRock has acquired US battery energy storage developer Jupiter Power from EnCap Investments.

Rolls-Royce is deploying a 30MW/63MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in the Netherlands, the largest in the country when complete, as well as a 10MWh system in southern Germany.

Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) and Tyler Hill Partners have created a platform to develop, build and operate up to 1GW of battery energy storage system projects in the UK.

Three Tesla Megapacks have arrived for installation at a power plant in Hungary, the first energy storage project in the country to use the EV giant’s grid-scale product.