A large-scale battery storage facility providing ancillary services to the grid has gone into commercial operation at the site of a hydroelectric power plant in the Philippines.

At COP28 last week, 11 countries joined a global consortium aimed at securing 5GW of battery energy storage deployments in low or middle-income countries.

Independent power producer (IPP) Globeleq has brought a 19MWp, 2MW/7MWh energy storage plant in Mozambique into commercial operation.

Norway-headquartered renewable energy company Scatec has brought online two solar-plus-storage hybrid resources projects in Cameroon, Africa.

French multinational utility ENGIE has agreed to acquire the battery storage business of US developer Broad Reach Power.

The Republic of Maldives has launched a tender process, seeking to procure battery energy storage systems (BESS) in an energy transition project supported by Asian Development Bank (ADB) funding.

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has signed a US$400 million loan to ENGIE Energía Chile S.A. (ENGIE Chile) to fund the installation of new Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS).

The government of Bangladesh and potential investors into energy storage in the South Asian country were handed a European Union-funded roadmap for the technology’s development last week.

Dr Rahul Walawalkar, founder & president of IESA, gives us an exclusive recap from India Energy Storage Week.