The government of Spain, through the Institution for the diversification and energy savings (IDAE) has awarded 880MW/1809MWh in its first tender for energy storage to be co-located with renewables.

The Spanish Ministry of Ecological Transition (MITECO) has allocated €85 million (US$91 million) to develop 51 renewable energy generation and storage projects on the Canary Islands.

Energy-Storage.news speaks with Jeff Bishop, CEO of Key Capture Energy about Michigan’s new energy storage target and why the Midwest could be the US’ biggest BESS market-in-waiting.

Grid-scale battery storage will be added in the Caribbean by Honeywell in the US Virgin Islands and Leclanché in St Kitts & Nevis.

The Abu Dhabi sovereign investor Mubadala Investment Company has announced a strategic investment in UK-headquartered battery energy storage and EV fleet solutions provider Zenobē.

The UK government’s recently announced national Battery Strategy was intended as a roadmap to establishing a competitive value chain.

A national solar energy industry association has criticised the UK government’s newly-released Battery Strategy for paying “insufficient attention” to opportunities presented by battery energy storage systems (BESS).

EnerVenue has launched an integrated energy storage system (ESS) solution comprised of its metal-hydrogen batteries, which it claims are capable of 30,000 cycles or more.

Financial commitments into utility-scale battery storage in Australia plummeted to just 13MW in Q3, although roughly ten times as much large-scale storage in megawatts have been commissioned so far this year compared to last.

Construction and industrial equipment company Caterpillar has launched an integrated energy storage system solution.