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Photograph of turbine stacks at Channel Island, the main gas-fired power plant in the Northern Territory's Darwin-Katherine Interconnected System.

First large-scale BESS in Australia’s Northern Territory reaches pre-commissioning phase

May 17, 2023
All 192 of the 3.5-tonne batteries at the first large-scale battery storage system (BESS) in the Northern Territory have been installed.
The Enervenue technology comprises the company's nickel-hydrogen 'Energy Storage Vessel' which are small units similar to battery cells, connected together to make high energy or high power configurations. Image: EnerVenue.
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Enervenue ‘30,000 cycle’ metal-hydrogen battery gets UL1973 certification, completes UL9540A tests

May 9, 2023
Enervenue has completed UL9540A tests for its nickel-hydrogen cells, units and systems and obtained UL1973 certification.
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Wärtsilä’s GridSolv Quantum BESS gets ‘best possible outcome’ from UL9540A fire safety testing

March 30, 2023
Wärtsilä’s battery energy storage system (BESS) product Gridsolv Quantum has achieved the “best possible outcome” in UL9540A testing.
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VIDEO: What experts think you should know about UL9540 codes and standards for battery storage

March 27, 2023
Energy-Storage.news’ webinar with IHI Terrasun: ‘What experts think you should know about UL9540 codes and standards for battery storage’.
US Secretary for Energy Jennifer Granholm at ESS Inc's Wilsonville, Oregon factory. On the right is CEO Eric Dresselhuys with founder Craig Evans, centre. Image: Business Wire.

ESS Inc. gets UL1973 certification for flow battery modules

March 22, 2023
ESS Inc. has received UL1973 certification for the battery modules in its utility and industrial flow battery energy storage systems.
Sembcorp's 200MW/285MWh BESS project on Jurong Island. Image: Sembcorp.
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‘Agile working method’ helped DNV get Southeast Asia’s biggest BESS online in just six months

March 22, 2023
Adopting an “agile working method” without taking any shortcuts on safety or other standards was crucial to DNV testing and certifying a 200MW battery project in Singapore in “record time”.
Large-scale fire testing of the type carried out on Wärtsilä's Quantum products, looks likely to become industry-wide in the US. Image: Wärtsilä.

Fire safety is crucial to the growth of energy storage in 2023

March 8, 2023
Energy storage’s incredible versatility and usefulness can’t be fully unleashed without a comprehensive approach to fire safety.
Fluence Cubes at a customer's BESS project. Image: Fluence.

Fluence opens system-level battery storage test facility in Pennsylvania

November 17, 2022
Energy storage hardware and software technology provider Fluence has opened its third global testing facility, in Pennsylvania, US.
Rendering of how the Fort Carson project will look, with solar PV array in background. Image: US Army / Lockheed Martin

US Army breaks ground on Lockheed Martin flow battery pilot

November 9, 2022
Construction has begun on a megawatt-scale flow battery project at the US Army’s Fort Carson in Colorado.
FCAS services remain the biggest revenue stream for most BESS assets in Australia, like the Hornsdale Power Reserve (pictured). Image: Neoen.

What do we know about battery storage risk?

October 17, 2022
Any new energy technology asset class comes with risk that needs to be recognised, write Liam McEneaney and Daniel Stevens at AXIS Insurance.

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