Energy trading company Foxwell Power (FWP) has contracted Saft to supply a battery storage solution for a 356MWh project in Taiwan.

The US Department of Energy has issued a loan of up to US$861.3 million to support 200MW solar PV and 285MW/1,140MWh BESS in Puerto Rico.

The Spanish Ministry of Ecological Transition (MITECO) has allocated €85 million (US$91 million) to develop 51 renewable energy generation and storage projects on the Canary Islands.

Grid-scale battery storage will be added in the Caribbean by Honeywell in the US Virgin Islands and Leclanché in St Kitts & Nevis.

The Republic of Maldives has launched a tender process, seeking to procure battery energy storage systems (BESS) in an energy transition project supported by Asian Development Bank (ADB) funding.

A new national plan to regulate planning procedures and permitting for energy storage facilities looks likely to be adopted in Israel.

The government of New Caledonia, a French overseas territory in Polynesia, has announced plans for a 150MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) to be deployed by IPP Akuo Energy.

Projects using novel, non-lithium battery technology have been progressed by organic flow battery firm CMBlu, liquid metal battery firm Ambri, and the NAS battery division of NGK Insulators.

Pacific island country of Palau has welcomed the commissioning of its first large-scale solar-plus-storage project, representing the largest power plant of its kind in the Western Pacific region.

Conglomerate GE will provide six 37MW turbines for a pumped hydro energy storage plant in the Spanish overseas territory of Gran Canaria.