A “farmer-led” utility-scale solar PV and battery storage agrivoltaics project in New South Wales, Australia, has been granted development consent.

New South Wales has granted planning approval for battery energy storage system projects in the Australian state’s Renewable Energy Zones.

New South Wales has approved plans to increase maximum sizing of battery storage at what could be Australia’s largest project of its type.

EnergyAustralia has filed planning applications for four-hour duration large-scale lithium BESS in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley.

Development approvals have been granted for New Zealand’s biggest planned battery energy storage system (BESS) to date.

Ohio Power Siting Board has given approval to a large-scale standalone battery energy storage system (BESS) project for the first time.

Ireland’s national planning body has approved a €140 million battery storage facility proposed by Strategic Power Projects in County Kildare.

This edition of news in brief comes from another busy week for our colleagues covering the UK energy transition.

Canada-headquartered renewable energy project developer-owner Amp Energy is to build what it is claiming are Europe’s two largest grid-connected battery storage facilities, each of 400MW / 800MWh.

AGL, one of Australia’s biggest power generation and retail companies, has received government planning approval for a large-scale standalone battery storage system, a year on from its first announcement of the project.