Over a gigawatt of bids from battery storage project developers have been successful in the first-ever competitive auctions for low-carbon energy capacity held in Japan.
Battery energy storage system (BESS) integrator and manufacturer Powin Energy will get “priority access” to cells from Rept Battero’s new factory in Indonesia.
Storage developer and operator Lightshift Energy will deploy numerous distributed BESS projects totalling 50MW for various utilities via the Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company (MMWEC).
Zambian developer GEI Power and Turkish energy technology firm YEO are aiming to have a 60MWp PV, 20MWh BESS project in Zambia online by September 2025.
A 100MW/200MWh BESS project in Northern Ireland has been acquired by the renewable energy development subsidiary of UK-headquartered power generator and developer SSE.
Here’s news in brief from around the world in energy storage with liquid metal battery maker Ambri, a German government-funded sodium-ion initiative, and ESS Inc’s iron flow battery project at Amsterdam.
Optimiser Habitat Energy has secured a deal with UBS Asset Management to handle the energy market activity of four BESS projects totalling 730MW in ERCOT, Texas.
Developer energyRe has secured US$240 mllion from Bank of America to fund the 108MWdc/198MWh Lone Star solar-plus-storage project in South Carolina, US.
Battery energy storage system (BESS) developer-operator Plus Power has received a US$82 million tax equity investment from bank Morgan Stanley for an Arizona project.
