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.
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.
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.
Recent reports on the energy storage auction in Greece shows that “players are willing to take risks” to get into the market, an analyst from research firm Clean Horizon told Energy-Storage.news.
The Italian grid-scale energy storage market is set to become one of the most active in Europe in the next few years having been close to non-existent until now.
The Regulatory Authority for Energy (RAE) in Greece has launched an auction for grants towards 400MW of energy storage, with three weeks to submit project proposals.