Developers Emeren and Matrix Renewables, part of private equity firm TPG, intend to launch a development service agreement (DSA) for 1.5GW of battery storage in Italy.
The Italian grid-scale energy storage market is set to become one of the most active in Europe in the next few years having been close to non-existent until now.
BESS projects in ERCOT, Texas, will be hit by a double whammy of market saturation and new rules around minimum state-of-charge (SOC), as the technology helps the state battle a severe heatwave.
Finance institutions GMO and PIDG will finance a first battery storage project in Senegal dedicated to frequency regulation, the first in the region, project developer Africa REN claimed.
Energy storage can enable decarbonisation of economies around the world and Asia-Pacific is no exception. Hendrik Bohne of Aquila Capital looks at the examples of two leading examples in the region.