The Republic of Maldives has launched a tender process, seeking to procure battery energy storage systems (BESS) in an energy transition project supported by Asian Development Bank (ADB) funding.

A ‘first of its kind’ microgrid will be installed at a California substation, where it will use a combination of lithium-ion batteries and green hydrogen to provide 48 hours of back up.

Fluence and Siemens Smart Infrastructure have completed a renewable energy microgrid project on Terceira, a Portuguese Azores island.

Canadian Solar will supply 550MWh of battery storage equipment for developer Pulse Clean Energy’s UK projects.

Amazon Studios has begun swapping out diesel generators for mobile BESS equipment at sets for its TV and film productions in the US.

A 49MW battery storage system has just been commissioned at a floating diesel power plant in Mindanao, Philippines.

Ambri system commissioned at Microsoft data centre reduces the use of fossil fuels and enables ancillary service market participation.

Increasingly, microgrids often lean on battery storage as a key component, replacing or reducing reliance on diesel and other fossil fuels.

Republic of Maldives has reopened a tender process, seeking to procure 40MWh of battery energy storage systems.

Google hails project to retrofit data centre with battery storage as a step towards rolling out similar solutions across global fleet.