PG&E picks six community microgrids, three using water as the battery
A $30 million second-window award under California's Microgrid Incentive Programme includes three Lake County projects pairing solar with pumped hydro in firefighting water tanks.
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Grid-scale batteries added 20.9 GWh worldwide in August, a fifth of it Saudi
Benchmark Mineral Intelligence figures put August commissioning at 6,516 MW / 20,855 MWh, with China at 61%, Saudi Arabia 19% and Europe 11%.
Fluence reserves 206 GWh of Eve cells, one of the largest supply deals yet
The framework runs 2027-2031: 16 GWh committed for 2027 and 190 GWh reserved for 2028-31, disclosed in an Eve Energy filing to the Shenzhen exchange.
Two Australian batteries holding 1.8 GWh entered AEMO's system on one day
Tailem Bend BESS 3 and Wooreen registered in the market management system on 15 September — a step towards testing, not the same thing as commercial operation.
Investment-grade notes now sit behind operating batteries in Texas
Jupiter Power closed $1.4bn across four deals for 1,500MW/3,600MWh — including a BBB− rated private placement secured on three plants already running.
NSW firming tender finishes with 3GWh of batteries operating
Four projects, AU$1.8 billion, and roughly 8% of the state's summer peak - all of it batteries, none of it gas.