IPP R.Power Renewables will launch construction on large-scale BESS projects in Romania and Poland in the second half of this year, while Electrica is procuring EPC works for its own BESS project.
Enlight Renewable Energy is expanding its Gecama Wind Project in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, by integrating solar PV and battery energy storage systems (BESS).
The government of South Africa has revealed the preferred bidders in the third window of its Battery Energy Storage Independent Power Procurement Programme (BESIPPPP), with IPPs Mulilo and Scatec winning the projects.
Ingrid Capacity and SEB have broken ground on a large-scale BESS in Finland, while Monsson has acquired a project in Sweden which it will start building in June.
The battery storage arm of Canadian Solar expects to make between 7GWh and 9GWh of shipments this year, with the final figure dependent on trade policy developments.
Power generation and energy trading firm DTEK Group is targeting up to 500MW of BESS deployments in Ukraine, which it said are ‘key priority in order to ensure Ukrainian energy security’ in light of Russia’s attacks on its energy system.
