Infrastructure investor InfraVia has bought a majority stake in Giga Storage, a Netherlands-headquartered BESS developer which is building a 2.4GWh project in Belgium.

A Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners portfolio company will shortly begin construction on a 250MW/500MWh battery storage system in Queensland, Australia.

Investment manager Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has closed funding for its Valley of Fire Fund, raising US$600 million in capital commitments from what it called “leading US and European institutional investors”.

California Public Utilities Commission has approved requests to allow solar and storage facilities to use Limited Generation Profiles (LGPs).

ZEN Energy has raised financing from US infrastructure investor Stonepeak towards a 111MW/290MWh battery storage project in South Australia.

The UK’s House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has said government must make “major decisions about future energy infrastructure”.

Energy-Storage.news Premium learns why Energy Dome, maker of the proprietary CO2 Battery for long-duration energy storage, has moved into the project business.

The largest battery storage facility in India is now online and was visited last week by the country’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.

Another roundup of news in brief from the UK’s busy energy storage market with project and financial news from Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, Gore Street Energy Storage Fund, and a tax break for home batteries.

Alfen has reported a 526% year-on-year increase in half-year revenues for its battery energy storage business segment.