Carrie Xiao examines some notable recent partnerships and supply agreements for Chinese energy storage players in the Middle East, Europe, Africa and Australia.

DNV has forecast that the MENA region will add 860GW of new solar PV by 2040, and energy storage capacity will grow 10x by 2030.

Anita Li, vice president of Jinko ESS, reflects on a ‘transformational year’ in which the energy storage arm of the vertically integrated solar manufacturer continued to expand.  

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Our selection of Guest Blogs published over the past year continues, featuring entries from July to December.

The World Bank’s International Finance Corporation has agreed a financing package for a 1GW solar PV power plant paired with 600MWh of energy storage in Egypt.  

Two major Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region projects combining solar PV and battery storage have progressed in Saudi Arabia and Egypt through ACWA Power and Scatec, respectively.

AFC and public-private-partnership (PPP) Cabeolica have inaugurated 13.5MW of wind power generation and 26MWh of battery storage in Cape Verde.

The first of 46 solar minigrids planned in Angola has been inaugurated by João Baptista Borges, the African country’s Minister of Energy and Water.

The battery storage industry’s race for higher energy density should be put into a site-level perspective, rather than focusing solely on larger cells.