The US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has progressed nine hybrid solar and storage facilities located across the states of Nevada and Arizona.
The Council of Menorca, one of Spain’s Balaeric islands, has detailed its energy transition plan for the next four years including 18MWh of distributed battery energy storage systems (BESS).
Energy Vault and a coal mining company owned by the local government in Sardinia, Italy, have signed a land lease agreement to deploy a project combining gravity energy storage and BESS technology.
The Central Electricity Authority of India (CEA) is fast-tracking two large-scale pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) projects totalling 2,600MW of power.
A new tender from the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) seeks 2,000MW of solar PV combined with 1,000MW/4,000MWh of energy storage system (ESS) technology.
System integrator Fluence Energy and investor Excelsior Energy Capital have entered into a supply agreement for 2.2GWh of BESS, which Fluence claims will utilise US-manufactured battery cells and modules.
The Spanish Ministry of Ecological Transition (MITECO) has published the regulatory basis for the €750 million (US$812 million) incentive scheme for renewables and energy storage manufacturing.
The Department of Energy (DOE) of the Philippines government has confirmed that a tender for renewable energy projects with integrated energy storage will launch this year.
