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India adds Energy Storage Obligation policy to renewable energy purchase scheme

July 26, 2022
India’s government has added an Energy Storage Obligation alongside its Renewable Purchase Obligation for the first time.
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Innergex brings online 9MW/9MWh first standalone battery storage project in France

July 25, 2022
Innergex has completed a BESS project in France, using a solution designed by a subsidiary of utility Hydro-Québec.
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Slowdown in BESS deployments on CAISO grid in lead-up to peak summer season

July 22, 2022
Battery storage deployments on the California ISO (CAISO) grid slowed in the lead-up to the peak summer season, with no new battery energy storage connected in May and only 65MW added in June.
Venture capital funding into energy storage has decreased while debt and public financing become increasingly prevalent. Image: Solar Media from Mercom Capital data.

Mercom: Energy storage corporate funding for first half of 2022 nearly equals 2021 total

July 21, 2022
In the first half of this year, energy storage companies raised almost as much corporate funding as in the whole of 2021.
Hero Future Energies hosting an India Republic Day celebration at one of its solar PV plants earlier this year. Image: Hero Future Energies via Twitter.

Tender for 10MW of battery storage won by Hero Future Energies in Kerala, India

July 20, 2022
Hero Future Energies has won a tender to construct grid-scale battery storage in the Indian state of Kerala.
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UK needs at least 50GW of energy storage for net zero by 2050, National Grid ESO says

July 19, 2022
The UK will have 50GW-plus of energy storage installed by 2050 in a best case scenario attainment of net zero, according to grid operator National Grid’s Future Energy Scenarios report.
Rendering of a battery storage project in development by Orix, winner of the auction's single biggest contract for a BESS bidding unit. Image: Orix.

Financial services group Orix, utility Kansai Electric construct 113MWh battery storage system in western Japan

July 19, 2022
Japanese financial services group Orix and regional utility company Kansai Electric building large-scale battery storage system.
The majority of BESS deployed in Canada to date has been large behind-the-meter C&I systems in Ontario like the one pictured, but this could be set to change. Credit: PRNewsfoto/Convergent Energy + Power

Brookfield to enter 161MW/644MWh battery project in Ontario IESO tender

July 13, 2022
Brookfield Renewable has proposed a 644MWh battery storage system to compete in the Ontario grid operator’s RfP.
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EIA: US battery storage tripled to 4.6GW in 2021 and broadened out of ancillary services

July 8, 2022
Battery storage capacity in the US more than tripled to 4,631GW in 2021 and increasingly broadened out of ancillary services, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).
Inauguration of India's first 10MW grid-scale BESS, in 2019. Image: Tata Power.

India’s tenders mark beginning of an ‘energy storage revolution’

July 5, 2022
India is on the “cusp of a potential energy storage revolution,” according to authors of a new report on tenders launched in the country.

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