French independent power producer (IPP) Neoen has been awarded a 20-year capacity services contract for its 200MW/1,600MWh energy storage project in Ontario.
The rising costs of coal and gas mean that the adoption of renewable energy is a “survival issue” for countries in Southeast Asia, and energy storage is critical to the transition.
Two recent microgrid projects highlight the expanding role of flow batteries, with Quino Energy deploying organic flow batteries in the Maldives and the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians integrating zinc hybrid cathode storage in Northern California.
IPP Enlight Renewable Energy has announced that its US subsidiary Clēnera Holdings has entered into a debt financing framework agreement for the CO Bar Complex in Arizona, US.
In this US news roundup, e-Storage, Spearmint Energy, and OCI Energy advance battery energy storage system (BESS) projects and financing in Michigan and Texas.
AEMO has set out a storage requirement of almost 50GW in its latest 2026 Integrated System Plan (ISP), split between 35GW of short and medium-duration battery storage for daily firming and 5GW of long-duration energy storage (LDES) for seasonal reliability.