AES Andes, a utility operating in South America owned by AES Corporation, has revealed plans to convert 560MW of thermal power generation into a molten salt-based energy storage plant in Chile.
Developer Primergy Solar has entered into a sole battery supply agreement with lithium-ion battery manufacturer CATL for the Gemini solar-plus-storage project in Nevada, US.
Long duration energy storage technologies like flow batteries, compressed air or gravity-based solutions look set to enter the market at scale in the second half of the 2030s, according to the DNV Energy Transition Outlook.
California investor-owned utility SDG&E has completed construction of a 40MW battery energy storage system (BESS) and started work on four storage-enabled microgrids totalling 39MW.