State-owned utility and power generator Eesti Energia has completed and put into commercial operation the first large-scale BESS in Estonia.

Suitable energy storage project sites are quickly being snapped up in Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM), with a premium on grid location.  

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) multilateral finance institution has approved a loan to upgrade Sri Lanka’s grid infrastructure.

Utility Golden Valley Electric Association (GVEA) is to receive US$206 million from the US Department of Agriculture’s Empowering Rural America (New ERA) programme to help develop three projects, including a 46MW/92MWh BESS in Fairbanks, Alaska.  

The US will provide US$85 million in foreign aid to the Republic of Moldova for battery energy storage system (BESS) projects as well as high voltage transmission line upgrades, secretary of state Anthony Blinken said last week (29 May).

Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks with Warwick Johnston, founder of solar energy consultants Sunwiz, on Australia’s distributed battery storage market dynamics.

A regional council in Germany has given the go-ahead for transmission system operator (TSO) TransnetBW’s 250MW Grid Booster BESS project, which will be provided by system integrator Fluence.

A US$10.5 billion programme to “strengthen grid resilience and reliability” across the US includes funding for microgrids and other projects that will integrate battery storage technologies.

Fluence president Americas John Zahurancik spoke with Energy-Storage.news at RE+ 2023 last week, discussing a broad range of industry talking points.

A recent draft final rule on reforms of grid interconnection processes from US regulator FERC has been welcomed by the energy storage industry, although many hurdles still remain.