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.

Steag subsidiary Iqony and Fluence will deploy a 50MW/200MWh BESS project in Germany, part of which will be contracted under a PPA with train network operator Deutsche Bahn.

Last week (7 November) saw bids opened for a 75MW/300MWh BESS tender launched by the government of Honduras, in Central America.

Developer Rolwind has won a favourable environmental impact assessment (EIA) result for a 200MW/800MWh BESS in Spain, the first standalone one to do so and the largest in the country, it claimed.

IPP Ormat Technologies has put an 80MW/320MWh BESS in California into commercial operation, and will now leverage the investment tax credit (ITC) for which it is eligible.

Castleton Commodities International LLC (CCI) subsidiary S4 Energy has acquired Netherlands BESS development platform LC Energy, and its 6GW pipeline of projects, from developer Low Carbon.