Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), the main electricity company in Sri Lanka, has issued an RFP for large-scale BESS.

Infrastructure investor I4B and utility Luminus have closed the financing and launched construction on a 150MW/600MWh BESS project in Belgium.

A c.500MWh BESS project in Bulgaria has been inaugurated, claimed as the largest in the European Union (EU).

We caught up with the president of OCI Energy, a developer-operator with a 4-hour BESS in Texas, about the longer duration, long-term project ownership and why the current US-China tariffs create a huge challenge for procurement.

Progress on BESS projects in Saudi Arabia and Chile totalling a combined 16GWh of energy storage capacity using Sungrow and BYD batteries has been revealed by the projects’ owners.

BESS developer-operator S4 Energy has put a 4-hour duration project online in the Netherlands, the first in the country to become operational.

Utility Eneco will optimise a BESS project in the Netherlands that, at 31.6MW/126.4MWh, will be the country’s largest when it comes online before the end of the year.

Technology provider Rongke Power has completed a 175MW/700MWh vanadium redox flow battery project in China, the largest of its type in the world.

Fengate Asset Management and Alpha Omega Power have closed a tax equity commitment with US Bancorp Impact Finance for a 400MWh BESS project in California, acquired from Origis Energy.

France-headquartered IPP and utility EDF has secured financial close for the second and third of a three-project BESS portfolio in South Africa, projects that won long-term contracts under the country’s BESIPPPP scheme.