Second Renewable Energy Target auction held in Victoria, Australia, won by six solar PV projects, four of which include battery storage.

Chile has published details of its latest power auction set to take place later this year that will contract 5,250GWh per annum for 15 years.

Prequalification results for the UK’s T-4 and T-1 Capacity Market auctions have been released, with battery storage rising significantly in both.

The success in a recent capacity market auction of large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in Belgium is a sign of the European country’s energy storage market maturing, Energy-Storage.news has heard. 

A tender has been opened for a large-scale solar-plus-storage project in Togo, West Africa, by the developer of a mixed use industrial park which has issued a call for expressions of interest (EOI).

Vertically-integrated solar PV company Canadian Solar has been awarded a 45MW / 45MWh battery storage project by Colombia’s Ministry of Energy and Mines.

Local subsidiaries of international energy companies Engie and Canadian Solar have been among the bidders in a tender for battery storage systems in Colombia.

Scatec has been awarded Preferred Bidder status for 540MW of solar projects with 225MW / 1,140MWh of battery storage through a government tender in South Africa.

Germany’s second ‘Innovation Tender’ for clean energy projects combining different technologies has awarded 258MW of capacity to solar-plus-storage across 18 bids.

Updated: Spain’s government has approved an energy storage strategy that it says will put the country “at the forefront” of what is being done in Europe and help it move towards its 2050 climate neutrality target.