UK smart meter company SMS enters utility-scale energy storage market with 90MW portfolio
Smart energy infrastructure company SMS has begun construction on its first battery energy storage project in the UK.
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PODCAST: Little and large battery storage projects and predicting a massive year for solar
The February 2021 episode of the Solar Media Podcast is now available to stream and asks the question: Could solar energy deployment in 2021 top 200GW?
Kansas’ biggest battery storage project awarded to FlexGen by community energy group
While it might be more than 200 times smaller than the world’s biggest battery energy storage system so far, a 1MW / 5.1MWh project awarded to technology provider FlexGen is expected to be the biggest of its kind in the US state of Kansas.
Sungrow awarded supply contract for one of Texas’ largest battery projects so far
Solar inverter manufacturer Sungrow’s energy storage system (ESS) solution will power a 100MW battery storage project in Texas which is scheduled to go into operation in mid-2021.
At 300MW / 1,200MWh, the world’s largest battery storage system so far is up and running
The world’s largest battery energy storage system (BESS) so far has gone into operation in Monterey County, California, US retail electricity and power generation company Vistra said yesterday.
Turbines operational at Skeleton Creek wind-solar-storage hybrid project in Oklahoma
NextEra Energy Resources said in December that wind turbines had been successfully installed and became operational at Skeleton Creek, a hybrid renewable energy project the company is building in Oklahoma, US.
Private investor plans 28MW / 56MWh battery project in Hunter, New South Wales
A Sydney-headquartered private investment firm and renewable energy and storage developer have lodged a development application to build a large-scale battery energy storage system in Newcastle, in the Hunter region of New South Wales in Australia.
100MW battery project in Ireland energised and ready to go operational in Q1 2021
A 100MW battery storage facility in Co. Offaly in Ireland has this week been energised, having been developed as part of a partnership between local developer Lumcloon Energy and South Korea's Hanwha Group.
Investor Gresham House raises US$160m for six new UK battery storage projects
London Stock Exchange-listed investor Gresham House Energy Storage Fund has raised £120 million (US$159.86 million) to finance six new energy storage projects.
UK’s largest battery storage project at 640MWh gets go ahead from government
The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in the UK has given the green light to the country’s biggest ever battery storage project.
Large-scale ESS in Belgium aims to prove business case for batteries in the energy transition
A 10MW / 20MWh battery energy storage project in Belgium has achieved financial close and is expected to begin construction shortly, the consortium behind the project has said.
Australian utility AGL reveals latest big step towards 850MW of battery storage
Australian utility AGL has furthered its plans to develop 850MW of large-scale battery storage across a number of sites in the country, announcing a new project in Victoria.
‘100% renewable energy’ luxury resort in Saudi Arabia will use 1,000MWh battery storage system
A tourism development in Saudi Arabia which will have its own international airport and hopes to attract over a million visitors each year will be 100% powered by renewable energy, with the help of a 1,000MWh battery storage facility.
Utility AGL plans 250MW / 1,000MWh battery project in South Australia
After a series of large-scale battery announcements in Australia from Federal and state governments, utility company AGL has followed up by saying it plans to build a battery system in South Australia with up to 1,000MWh of capacity.
Construction of 250MWh liquid air ‘CRYOBattery’ has begun in UK
Construction work has begun on Technology provider Highview Power's 50MW / 250MWh liquid air energy storage (LAES) facility in Greater Manchester, England.
Australian states push forward large-scale battery plans
While the Federal government of Australia resists public and political pressure to commit to net zero targets, the states of Victoria and Queensland have made progress in advancing plans for a large-scale standalone battery project and a wind-plus-storage plant respectively.
California Community Choice power provider continues prolific run of dispatchable solar procurements
Another contract has been signed for energy from a large-scale solar-plus-storage plant by one of California’s Community Choice Aggregator (CCA) groups.
Wärtsilä installs Singapore’s first utility-scale ESS as Southeast Asia business ramps up
Wärtsilä has installed the first utility-scale battery storage project in Singapore and received an order from a customer in Southeast Asia for a further 90MW / 90MWh of battery storage.
Australia’s federal and regional governments to help fund 75MWh BESS trial in Sydney
A 50MW / 75MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Western Sydney, Australia, will receive AU$21.5 million (US$15.35 million) in assistance from the federal and state governments towards its total cost of AU$61.9 million.
1,000MW industrial VPP project to begin across Australia ‘as soon as Victoria out of lockdown’
The first phase of a 1,000MW behind-the-meter virtual power plant (VPP) is expected to begin deployment in Australia as soon as the state of Victoria’s COVID-19 lockdown is over.
‘Serial entrepreneur’ brings second Tesla grid-scale battery project in Slovenia online
About a year after unveiling what is thought to be the first large-scale Tesla Powerpack battery project in the Balkans, Slovenian energy services company NGEN has confirmed that it has completed its second, even bigger project.
‘Critical municipal infrastructure project’ first to use Wärtsilä’s new battery storage solution
Wärtsilä Corporation launched its newest modular energy storage system solution at a ‘critical municipal infrastructure’ project performing grid services and reducing peak demand for a city in Virginia, US.
Tesvolt ‘extremely proud’ to be part of Europe’s ‘largest and most innovative’ EV charging park
What is currently thought to be Europe’s largest electric car charging station opened just before the weekend including a 2MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) supplied and integrated by Tesvolt.
Broad Reach Power builds two Texas battery plants equal in size to state’s largest project so far
Relative industry newcomer Broad Reach Power is set to equal in size the largest standalone battery project announced so far in Texas, with two new 100MW facilities under construction in the US state.
Local authority in England plans its second grid-scale battery storage system
South Somerset District Council (SSDC), a local government authority in the UK, is to build its second grid-scale battery storage project, announcing a 40MW facility that will be located near Fareham in Hampshire, southern England.
NextEra’s next era in California could see 2,700MW of batteries installed by 2024
US wholesale electricity supplier NextEra Energy Resources has said 700MW of contracted battery energy storage resources it will deploy in California within two years could be followed by a further 2,000MW pipeline of battery projects under development in the state.
Publicly-owned and operated 20MW battery project begins construction in New York
New York Power Authority (NYPA) said work has begun on the state's second grid-scale battery storage facility connected to the transmission network, with the system set to remain owned and operated by New York State.
Amid California’s heatwaves and fires, ‘world’s largest’ battery project is being switched on
Update 21 August 2020: An LS Power representative contacted Energy-Storage.news to provide further information on the Gateway project's storage capacity.
‘First mover’ Key Capture Energy putting 200MW of LFP batteries online in Texas
Key Capture Energy (KCE) will build three large-scale energy storage systems (BESS) to participate in Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) energy markets, using a “custom solution” based on lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries.
Subsidy-free ‘landmark’ UK solar-plus-storage site Clayhill changes hands
Anesco, the developer of a subsidy-free solar farm in England which has onsite battery energy storage, has sold the plant on to hybrid solar solutions company GRIDSERVE.