Brightnight is seeking approval from the Arizona Corporation Commission to construct a generation tie-in transmission line (gen-tie) in La Paz County, Arizona.

Econergy will soon start construction on a 50MW BESS project in Poland, the first of that scale to reach this stage in the market, the Israel-based IPP claimed.

DNO and IPP Electrica has received €3.4 million (US$3.8 million) in EU grants for a c.70MWh BESS project it will build in Romania.

Independent power producers (IPP) Scatec and AMEA Power will build solar and storage projects totalling 1.1GWh of storage capacity for power purchase agreements (PPAs) in Egypt.

Infrastructure investor Actis has entered a strategic partnership with the companies behind a 3.5GW solar, 4.5GWh BESS project in the Philippines, one of the largest in the world.

IPP Invenergy has put a 50MW BESS into commercial operations in Arizona, US, its 10th in the state.

Utility CPS Energy and IPP Eolian have entered into storage capacity agreements for two battery energy storage system (BESS) projects totalling 350MW of power capacity in the ERCOT, Texas market.

Denmark-based IPP Ørsted has partnered with developer Mission Clean Energy to develop and build 1GW of battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in the Midwest US.

A project combining gas turbines and BESS technology in the Czech Republic has been put into commercial operation.

In this Q&A, Enel North America CEO Paolo Romanacci discusses the IPP’s operational BESS projects, pipeline and deployments as well as his views on wider US industry challenges.