A roundup of energy storage news from across the continent of Africa, with Morocco’s ONEE shortlisting bidders for a pumped hydro project, Somalia launching a grid-scale solar and storage tender, and a microgrid pairing grid-scale solar, BESS and diesel at a mine in Zambia.
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) has made a conditional commitment for a loan to long-duration energy storage (LDES) developer and operator Hydrostor of up to US$1.76 billion.
System operator ISO New England has given the go-ahead for a 300MW/1,200MWh BESS located in Boston, Massachusetts under development by Boulder, Colorado-based developer and IPP Flatiron Energy.
Utility Eneco will optimise a BESS project in the Netherlands that, at 31.6MW/126.4MWh, will be the country’s largest when it comes online before the end of the year.
The US Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have released final rule for the Clean Electricity Investment and Production Tax Credits – also known as the technology-neutral credits.
Ofgem, the UK’s energy market regulator, is considering raising the minimum duration of technologies eligible for a long-duration energy storage (LDES) support scheme.
Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed the EZBattery Model, a simulation tool for predicting the performance of redox flow batteries.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) has made a conditional commitment for a loan to utility Arizona Public Service (APS), the first part of which would go towards a 600MWh BESS.
NextEra Energy Resources (NEER) has commenced the state permitting process for two hybrid solar and storage projects with a cumulative battery capacity of 250MW in Wisconsin, US.
