Republic of Maldives has reopened a tender process, seeking to procure 40MWh of battery energy storage systems.

ENGIE has pulled out of a large-scale solar-plus-storage project contract in the Western Pacific US island territory of Guam.

Island nations Mauritius and Barbados have both begun renewable energy procurement processes that involve energy storage.

Wärtsilä has given details of the energy storage system it will supply to utility company Bahamas Power & Light (BPL).

Residential energy storage system provider Eguana will begin deploying devices to operate as a connected virtual power plant on the Hawaiian island of Oahu.

Energy storage can make a “positive contribution everywhere” in Southeast Asia, but the industry needs to be proactive in helping market regulators to understand the best ways to facilitate its role in their energy systems.

The Indian Ocean island nation of the Maldives has begun tendering for 40MW / 40MWh of battery energy storage systems across several regions.

North America is currently leading the world for utility-scale energy storage deployments, but could be overtaken by the second-largest market, the Asia-Pacific region, as early as 2023, according to forecasting and analysis by Guidehouse Insights.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Environment Ministry of the Maldives have launched a plan to roll out solar–battery–diesel hybrids across 48 islands.

Installing a 10MW battery system in Bermuda was a “no-brainer” from both an economic and technical standpoint, one of the engineers at Bermuda utility BELCO has told Energy-Storage.news.