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Project Applications ESS News

The global pipeline of energy storage projects is growing rapidly across a variety of market segments, including distributed, grid-scale, off-grid and second-life projects.

From increasing solar self-consumption, reducing consumption peaks, providing flexibility to the electricity system, to deferring costly investments in transmission and distribution infrastructure, the range of applications which energy storage devices can provide is constantly evolving.

To build a robust business case, however, most storage facilities need to provide several services.

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California sets precedent by overriding local blockade to advance 1.2 GWh Soda Mountain BESS California is asserting state authority to revive the $700 million Soda Mountain project, marking a new era where Sacramento can reclaim authority from local counties to force stalled utility-scale solar and storage across the finish line.
Ryan Kennedy
9 hours ago
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Australia’s market operator Q1 2026 report highlights 4.4 GW of grid storage coming online boosting renewables The battery boom in Australia at grid-scale and the residential sector is changing the face of the grid, with data showing the scale of the shifts across Australia's east.
Tristan Rayner, Ev Foley
14 hours ago
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US grid operator PJM reopens interconnection process: 67 GW+ of storage in the queue Grid operator PJM has reopened its standard interconnection process to new generation projects, after closing the standard process to new applicants in 2022 to completely clear its backlog.
William Driscoll
16 hours ago
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Longi completes its fully integrated battery storage project in Europe Longi has completed grid connection and begun operations of its 13.75 MW/50.16 MWh BESS project in central Italy, while also launching a service centre in Madrid.
Sergio Matalucci
Apr 29, 2026
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Chile reaches 4.6 GW of energy storage under construction The March 2026 Energy Sector Construction and Investment Projects Report, released by the Chilean Ministry of Energy, records 38 storage systems under construction, for 4,597 MW and 18,780 MWh.
Luis Ini
Apr 29, 2026
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Massive new $58.5 billion AI data center for Croatia to be anchored by 8 GWh BESS €50 billion Croatia AI campus by Pantheon Atlas pairs 500 MW solar with 8,000 MWh battery to meet hyperscale demand.
Tristan Rayner
Apr 29, 2026
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BW ESS, EDF ink 10-year floor for 1.2 GWh British battery The 350 MW/1,243 MWh Hams Hall Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in North Warwickshire is the longest duration battery EDF has contracted to date.
Marija Maisch
Apr 28, 2026

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California grants $42 million for Marine Corps Camp zinc-ion battery storage project Awarded by California’s Long Duration Energy Storage program, the grant will enable International Electric Power to install a 48 MWh of storage at one of the country’s busiest military installations.
Phoebe Skok
Dec 17, 2024
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European BESS: 105 MWh for Greece, 65 MWh for Switzerland Greece is getting four new battery energy storage systems (BESS) amounting to 105 MWh, while Germany's Intilion will develop 65 MWh for Switzerland's Primeo Energie. The UK's first transmission-connected co-located solar and BESS facility has contracted a new asset manager.
Blathnaid O’Dea
Dec 17, 2024
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Another $299m for Grenergy’s vast Oasis de Atacama solar-plus-storage site in Chile The lenders who backed the first two phases of the solar-plus-storage mega site have offered further funds for the 230 MW solar and 1.3 GWh storage third stage.
Max Hall
Dec 17, 2024
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Reliance lands 1.86 GWh battery storage in Indian solar-plus-storage tender Reliance NU Suntech will develop the solar-plus-storage capacity on a build, own, operate basis. The project will supply electricity under a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with the Solar Energy Corp. of India (SECI).
Uma Gupta
Dec 17, 2024
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Green light for 740 MWh Spanish battery projects Spain's Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (MITECO) has issued favorable environmental impact statements (EIS) for three projects: 200 MWh of storage on a hybrid renewables site, a 340 MWh battery in Malaga, and a 200 MWh project in Asturias.
Pilar Sanchez Molina
Dec 17, 2024
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Batteries key to Australia’s 82% renewables 2030 target Doubts about Australia’s ability to power its National Electricity Market (NEM) with 82% renewable energy by 2030 have been put to bed by a Climate Energy Finance (CEF) report citing off-the-charts battery energy storage growth.
Ev Foley
Dec 17, 2024
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Spain allocates €150m for 2.82 GWh of grid-scale, standalone batteries The 45 battery and thermal energy storage projects allocated European Union subsidies will add more than 779 MW/3.4 GWh of capacity to the Spanish grid.
Pilar Sanchez Molina
Dec 16, 2024
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Construction of Spain’s first grid booster batteries to begin in January Grid operator Red Eléctrica de España (REE) will install two 25 MW/18.75 MWh batteries in what it has described as 'the largest SATA [storage as a transmission asset] system in the south of the European Union and the first of its kind to be built in Spain.'
Pilar Sanchez Molina
Dec 16, 2024
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Lightsource starts construction of 640 MWh Australian battery Lightsource bp has started construction of its Woolooga battery energy storage system (BESS) in Queensland and its million-panel Goulburn River hybrid project in New South Wales (NSW).
Ev Foley
Dec 16, 2024

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