Oil & gas major TotalEnergies and Canadian Solar have received key state-level approvals for large-scale solar PV-plus-energy storage projects in New South Wales, Australia.

CATL is the world’s largest lithium-ion manufacturer, and a major player in BESS too, and made headlines earlier this year when it claimed five years of ‘zero degradation’ for its new grid-scale product Tener.

System integrator Stem Inc has seen huge falls in quarterly revenue and bookings as it shifts its business model away from BESS hardware solutions towards higher-margin software and service offerings.

Spanish independent power producer (IPP) Grenergy has secured a 1.25GWh energy storage supply agreement with CATL for its Oasis de Atacama project in Chile.

EVLO, the battery storage subsidiary of Canadian utility Hydro-Quebec, has signed a Master Supply Agreement (MSA) with China’s Hithium.

Tier-1 battery manufacturer EVE Energy will be the first to mass-produce lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cells with more than 600Ah capacity for stationary applications.

Sunwoda and Gryphon Energy have partnered to develop a 1.6GWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Queensland, Australia.

“This solution is fully bankable and financeable in the States,” says Terry Chen, VP of Trina Solar North America.

Energy Dome has signed a contract with Alliant Energy for a 200MWh long-duration energy storage (LDES) project in Wisconsin, which the US utility considers the “first of many.”

A roundup of news from Europe, with Alfen and Sermatec deploying BESS projects in Sweden and Bulgaria and new firm terralyr raising €77 million for project development and operation, starting in Germany.