Australian energy minister Chris Bowen has said tenders for 500MW of renewable energy backed with energy storage will open in the middle of this year in Western Australia (WA).

Energy storage systems (ESS) will become India’s most invested-in clean energy asset class during this decade, but it’s likely to be pumped hydro, not lithium-ion batteries, that see the most deployments.

Multiple tenders seeking gigawatts of ‘firm and dispatchable’ renewable energy have been launched in India in recent months by state-owned or administered enterprises.

US utility company Georgia Power is gauging interest from providers of potential capacity resources including standalone energy storage, hybrid generation-plus-storage and thermal power plants.

RayGen, a startup with a novel high-temperature thermal energy storage tech, has marked opening of a 50MWh plant in Victoria, Australia.

Australia has opened a public consultation for scheme widely expected to be a game changer in rollout of clean energy technologies.

Serentica Renewables has signed an offtake deal for 1.5GWh of pumped hydro energy storage in two Indian states with Greenko Group.

Ontario and Alberta account for the bulk of Canada’s installed, planned and proposed large-scale energy storage today. The rest of the country can lean on the experiences and lessons learned, Andy Colthorpe hears from developers and expert voices.

Australia’s Federal Budget included AU$4 billion new investment in energy, confirmation of tenders for renewables and energy storage.

Greenko, an Indian power producer creating a 24/7 renewable energy proposition has announced US$1.2 billion PHES project.