Ana Lía Rojas, executive director at the Chilean renewable energy and energy storage association (ACERA) gave the opening keynote of Energy Storage Summit Latin America 2026 and spoke about Chile’s current BESS market.

Four-hour battery storage is less expensive than open-cycle gas turbines in the 43 markets in which both technologies were modelled, according to a new report from market research firm Wood Mackenzie.

Alberto Valenzuela discusses ahead of Energy Storage Summit Latin America about Mexico’s growing interest in renewables and energy storage, and the factors driving this growth.

Power group Engie has put an 142MW/802MWh BESS project in Chile into operation, while IPP Grenergy has secured financing for the fifth and final stage of its Oasis de Atacama solar-plus-storage project.

Power firm Engie and IPP Grenergy are advancing three solar-plus-BESS projects in Chile.

CATL has formed a partnership to work on projects awarded contracts through Brazil’s first national energy storage auction programme, which received more than 6,000 bids.

Independent power producer (IPP) Verano Energy has awarded the battery energy storage system (BESS) supply for its 152MW/606MWh Observatorio project to Sungrow.

Danish investment firm Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has reached financial close of the La Esperanza Solar energy storage-plus-solar PV project in the state of Campeche on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.

Independent power producer (IPP) ContourGlobal has begun construction of its fourth large-scale solar PV and battery storage hybrid project in Chile.

The Argentinian Government has awarded 700MW of battery energy storage system (BESS) in its latest tender, AlmaSADI, covering the entire country.