Battery energy storage systems (BESS) will play an important role in reducing curtailment issues Chile has been facing in 2024, keynote speakers said at the third edition of Solar Media’s Energy Storage Summit Latin America 2024 today.

Canada’s Capstone Infrastructure and Denmark’s Eurowind Energy are proposing to construct a 400MW/3200MWh standalone BESS in Alameda County, California.

Utility and independent power producer (IPP) Celestia has deployed a solar co-located lithium iron phosphate (LFP) BESS in Colombia.

Highview Power has revealed its second planned long-duration energy storage (LDES) project using its liquid air energy storage (LAES) technology, in Scotland, UK.

India’s government-owned National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has launched a tender to deliver a 100MW/400MWh battery energy storage system (BESS).

Danish renewable energy company Ørsted and US utility Salt River Project (SRP) have confirmed that their 300MW solar-plus-storage project in Pinal County, Arizona, has commenced operations.

This edition of news in brief from around the world in energy storage includes Enel X, NineDot Energy and Nissan.

Developer and optimiser Ingrid Capacity and investor BW ESS have commissioned a 211MW/211MWh BESS portfolio in Sweden, the largest in the Nordics, they claimed.

Aquila Clean Energy has launched construction on a 50MW BESS in Finland, while MW Storage has launched two new projects in the country.

JSW Energy has signed a PPA with India’s Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company for a 12,000MWh PHES plant.