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.
Spain-based Ingeteam supplied the power conversion and inverter equipment for the first phase of a 1GW solar-plus-storage project in Mexico, the country’s largest.
Con Edison has inaugurated the largest battery storage project to date within New York City, making a tiny dent in delivering the US utility’s state-determined commitment to energy storage.
Dutch transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT says the Netherlands will need 9GW of large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) capacity connected to its grid by 2030.
Pacific island country of Palau has welcomed the commissioning of its first large-scale solar-plus-storage project, representing the largest power plant of its kind in the Western Pacific region.