Renewable energy developer Gurin Energy has appointed Saft as the technology provider to a gigawatt-hour-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) in Japan.
Japanese manufacturer NGK Insulators’ proprietary battery tech features in a large-scale project that has just come online in its home country, as a pilot begins in the US.
The battery storage arm of Canadian Solar expects to make between 7GWh and 9GWh of shipments this year, with the final figure dependent on trade policy developments.