Developer and IPP R.Power has received €15 million (US$15.6 million) in non-reimbursable state financing to build a 2-hour BESS project in Romania.

A green energy subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Marubeni has brought online a megawatt-scale battery storage demonstration project in Vietnam.

EPCG, a utility and distribution network operator (DNO) in the Southeast European country of Montenegro, is looking to add 300MW of BESS to its grid.

San Antonio, Texas utility CPS Energy and developer OCI Energy entered into a long-term storage capacity agreement (SCA) for a 120MW/480MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) 6 December.

The deadline has now passed for Bulgaria’s EU-backed support scheme for standalone energy storage, and the bids submitted amount to four times the available capital available.

A consortium of development finance institutions led by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and IPP Gulf Energy have signed a US$820 million loan agreement for a solar and storage portfolio in Thailand.

A flurry of major grid-scale BESS news in Finland, the Netherlands, Germany and France about projects which could all be described as the largest in those countries.

The Energy Storage Awards 2024 ceremony saw the European industry and its partners gather to celebrate the best technologies, brightest minds and sharpest business ideas.

Last week (7 November) saw bids opened for a 75MW/300MWh BESS tender launched by the government of Honduras, in Central America.