Four battery energy storage system (BESS) units at a Microsoft data centre in Sweden from Saft have entered operation, while ABB has added ZincFive as a technology supplier for its own UPS solutions.

Jigar Shah, the clean energy industry veteran leading the US Department of Energy Loan Programs Office, speaks with Energy-Storage.news.

Multiple tenders seeking gigawatts of ‘firm and dispatchable’ renewable energy have been launched in India in recent months by state-owned or administered enterprises.

Nine projects pairing solar or wind with energy storage submitted environmental impact assessments in Chile last month.

Northvolt intends to use its vertical European supply chain to differentiate itself in a ‘fiercely competitive’ energy storage market, executives said.

Octopus Investments Australia has bought one of the biggest BESS projects in development in the country, from developer Firm Power.

The US Department of Defense Defense Innovation Unit will try out ‘prototype advanced energy systems’ based around LDES technologies.

A renewable energy subsidiary of the Philippine conglomerate Lopez Group has contracted for the deployment of battery energy storage system (BESS) resources at three geothermal sites.

Over 400MW of solar-plus-storage projects win Innovation Tender contracts in Germany

The West African Development Bank (BOAD) has approved a US$24 million loan for a solar and storage project in Senegal with a 15MW/45MWh battery energy storage system (BESS).