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Blackstone’s Aypa Power secures US$88m loan for 173MWh BESS in Texas

July 20, 2022
Blackstone portfolio company Aypa Power has closed an US$88 million construction and term loan facility for Wolf Tank, a 173MWh standalone energy storage project in Texas.
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Scatec begins construction on 1.1GW co-located energy storage projects in South Africa

July 20, 2022
Renewable energy power producers Scatec has started building three co-located solar projects with 1.1 GW hours of energy storage in South Africa, after achieving financial close.
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Energy trader Vitol leads US$100 million funding round for BESS system integrator FlexGen

July 20, 2022
US energy storage system integration services and software company FlexGen has raised US$100 million in a Series C funding round.
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Tender for 10MW of battery storage won by Hero Future Energies in Kerala, India

July 20, 2022
Hero Future Energies has won a tender to construct grid-scale battery storage in the Indian state of Kerala.
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Iberdrola inaugurates 40GWh Tamega pumped hydro plant in Portugal

July 19, 2022
Spanish utility Iberdrola has inaugurated its ‘Tâmega Gigabattery’ in northern Portugal, a renewable energy complex including pumped hydro with an energy storage capacity of 40GWh.
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UK needs at least 50GW of energy storage for net zero by 2050, National Grid ESO says

July 19, 2022
The UK will have 50GW-plus of energy storage installed by 2050 in a best case scenario attainment of net zero, according to grid operator National Grid’s Future Energy Scenarios report.
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Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority enters solar-plus-storage PPA with Convergent Energy + Power

July 19, 2022
Convergent Energy + Power has signed a PPA with Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority for output from a solar-plus-storage power plant.
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Feasibility study launched for 300MW solar-plus-storage project in Mozambique

July 19, 2022
Power project developer Ncondezi Energy has launched a feasibility study for a 300MW solar PV plant with battery storage, in Mozambique.
Rendering of a battery storage project in development by Orix, winner of the auction's single biggest contract for a BESS bidding unit. Image: Orix.

Financial services group Orix, utility Kansai Electric construct 113MWh battery storage system in western Japan

July 19, 2022
Japanese financial services group Orix and regional utility company Kansai Electric building large-scale battery storage system.
Taiwan Cement Corporation has awarded more than 400MWh of projects in Taiwan to NHOA. Pictured is a rendering of how one such project could look. Image: NHOA.

NHOA claims battery storage business success ‘despite increasingly complex global scenario’

July 18, 2022
CEO of NHOA has hailed its “unparalleled” performance in the first half of this year, despite industry headwinds.

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