Energy-Storage.news spoke exclusively with Argentina’s National Energy Secretary, María Tettamanti, about the launch of its second BESS tender.

Argentina has awarded 667MW of battery energy storage system (BESS) in its first tender under the AlmaGBA scheme.

Argentina has received more than 1.3GW of energy storage applications for its first battery energy storage system (BESS) tender.

This week Engie Chile has energised the 68MW/418MWh BESS Tamaya project in Antofagasta, while Canadian Solar’s e-STORAGE secured a turnkey EPC contract to supply a 98MW/312MWh DC BESS in Chile.

A public consultation regarding the auction will be launched in the coming days, while capacity and funding details have yet to be disclosed.

US asset manager Stonepeak has entered Japan’s energy storage market, forming a partnership with CATL-backed developer CHC.

For many years now, Spain has been one of the leading European markets for solar PV but has yet to meet the same outcome for energy storage. Sungrow has high expectations for this to happen in the coming years.

Panama has launched a 500MW tender auction for renewables and energy storage, the first in Central America to include storage.

While 12 projects won awards in the first tranche of Greece’s recent grid-scale energy storage auctions, what of the c.500 totalling nearly 27GW that didn’t? Jon Ferris, LCP Delta’s Head of Flexibility and Storage, looks at the dynamics which could play out in rounds two and three in Europe’s fourth largest market by 2030 pipeline.

The Regulatory Authority for Energy (RAE) of Greece has chosen the 12 winning projects of a recently-launched tender, with 411MW of battery storage capacity to receive financial aid over a 10-year period.