Storage China’s Shandong Province has initialized a 228.5 MW virtual power plant unit, operating off the back of 363.7 MW of aggregated assets. Australia’s Queensland state has backed the 20 GWh Mt Rawdon pumped hydro project with $32 million of initial funding, via state-owned generator CleanCo. Moldova is to tender 246 MW of battery energy storage capacity to be co-located with renewables. Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners’ Supernode BESS complex planned for Brisbane, Australia now has a total capacity of 750 MW / 2.54 GWh with the addition of a 250 MW / 1.01 GWh phase 3 section, which has an offtake agreement with state-owned energy company Stanwell. Eku Energy has acquired a 1 GW / 2 GWh BESS portfolio in the UK…