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Update 5 April 2022: A Hyosung Heavy Industries representative told Energy-Storage.news the BESS will be 48MW rated output with 192MWh capacity.

News in brief from around the world in energy storage.

Island nations Mauritius and Barbados have both begun renewable energy procurement processes that involve energy storage.

Energy group Enel has started operating a 4MW/1.7MWh backup power storage system at a plant in Spain’s North African territory using 78 repurposed Nissan electric vehicle (EV) batteries.

South African grid operator Eskom is close to finalising the launch of 832MWh of battery energy storage development, but eyes are on an even larger upcoming REIPPP-model procurement.

Sungrow will supply a 16MW/64MWh battery energy storage system to a customer in Israel.

The new edition of PV Tech Power is now available to download.

Huawei has agreed to provide the complete solution for what looks set to be the biggest project of its type in Africa so far. 

Energy-storage.news caught up with executives from two long-duration flow battery energy storage providers, ESS Inc. and Invinity Energy Systems, at the Energy Storage Summit 2022.