ArcLight views its portfolio of existing thermal power plant assets as “excellent potential locations for battery projects”.

News in brief, from another busy week for our colleagues reporting on the UK battery storage market at Solar Power Portal.

Westbridge has added another large-scale solar-plus-storage project to its development portfolio in Alberta, Canada.

A 200MW BESS to be located in Lancashire, northern England, has secured planning permission.

Saft has completed another project in France for parent company TotalEnergies.

Pivot Power has secured planning permission for two 50MW/100MWh lithium-ion battery storage sites in the UK.

Origin Energy has outlined how a virtual power plant (VPP) and large-scale battery storage will allow it to replace coal.

Although different energy storage technologies are often thought of as in competition with each other, it’s a case of all-hands-on-deck if we are to achieve deployment targets.

Sembcorp Energy UK is planning on building what it claims will be Europe’s largest battery energy storage system (BESS) as its site at Wilton International on Teesside, in north-east England.

Red tape, costs and logistical hurdles for large-scale battery storage and hybrid systems to participate in Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM) will be cut under new Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) rules.