Inlyte Energy has completed a seed funding round to develop its iron and salt-based battery technology, which it claims has high efficiency, long lifetime, ‘competitive’ energy density, excellent safety and an ultra-low cost.
The battery energy storage system (BESS) arm of PV module manufacturer Canadian Solar has won a 800MWh order for a project in Arizona from Tucson Electric Power (TEP).
In a trio of UK battery storage announcements, EDF Renewables has commissioned a 50MW battery energy storage system (BESS), while TagEnergy and Exagen have progressed two projects totalling another 175MW.
Arizona Electric Power Cooperative (AEPCO) has received board approval to deploy a solar-plus-storage project with up to 940MWh of capacity, after two smaller co-operatives completed smaller co-located projects in the state.
The intentions of battery storage developers and operators from the UK in Poland and CEE are ‘not very concrete’ with most just ‘getting a feel’ for what’s out there, sources said.
The energy storage division of global solar PV manufacturer Trina Solar has debuted its Elementa 2 battery energy storage system (BESS) solution at All-Energy Australia.
Only half of the energy storage needed to properly integrate the potential solar PV additions globally by 2030 will be deployed based on current policies, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in its World Energy Outlook report for 2023.
Successful optimisation of batteries co-located with wind is complex but could help “unlock a blueprint” for managing assets at portfolio level, the chief executive of UK software company Arenko has said.
California now has 6.6GW of battery energy storage systems (BESS) online, while Gore Street has secured US$60 million in financing for its 400MWh project in the state.
