Alberto Valenzuela discusses ahead of Energy Storage Summit Latin America about Mexico’s growing interest in renewables and energy storage, and the factors driving this growth.
Power group Engie has put an 142MW/802MWh BESS project in Chile into operation, while IPP Grenergy has secured financing for the fifth and final stage of its Oasis de Atacama solar-plus-storage project.
Distributed energy resource (DER) platform Voltus has raised US$225 million in an oversubscribed Series D financing round and is looking to expand in the US and Canada.
South Africa’s government has put battery storage and power-to-gas technologies at the heart of the national long-term electricity supply and demand strategy.
Electrifying low-temperature industrial heat and steam processes with renewables could reduce European Union natural gas consumption by 35 billion cubic metres-per-year, according to a report from the International Energy Agency (IEA).
South Korea’s Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment (MCEE) has unveiled its KRW1,000 trillion (US$747 billion) Korean Green Transformation (K-GX) industrial strategy.