Chile has passed new regulations around capacity market payments to energy storage, coinciding with a major project announcement from CJR and Sungrow.

Innergex Renewable Energy has started operating a 35MW/175MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Chile, its second large-scale BESS in the country.

The Chilean Ministry of Energy has opened a public land bidding auction seeking 13GWh of standalone energy storage projects.

Developers Agilitas Energy and On.Energy have raised a total US$125 million in debt financing towards solar, energy storage and hybrid solar-plus-storage projects in the US.

Global utility and IPP Engie will build a 116MW/660MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) at the former site of a coal plant it operated in Chile.

Atlas Renewable Energy has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with COPEC to deploy a 200MW/800MWh battery energy storage system (BESS).

Utility and independent power producer (IPP) Engie has started commercial operations of a 139MW/638MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in the northern region of Antofagasta, Chile.

Utility and independent power producer (IPP) Engie has started construction on a BESS project in Chile with a 5-hour duration.

EV and BESS company BYD will supply its product for a project from Grenergy in Chile which has been claimed as the largest energy storage project in the world.

AES Andes has received environmental review approval for a 560MW project in Chile converting an existing coal plant to renewable energy and energy storage, using a molten salt-based technology.