Spanish utility Iberdrola has inaugurated its ‘Tâmega Gigabattery’ in northern Portugal, a renewable energy complex including pumped hydro with an energy storage capacity of 40GWh.

Prime Infrastructure Capital, owned by Filipino businessman Enrique K Razon, is in line to provide 500MW of pumped hydro power to national utility Meralco.

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority has neared the halfway completion mark of a 250MW pumped hydro project.

Our UK colleagues spoke with some of the winners of the long-duration energy storage technology competition hosted by the government.

Battery storage is leading provider of frequency control ancillary services (FCAS) in the National Electricity Market.

Construction work has started on a 30MWh pumped hydro storage project in Western Australia.

JSW Energy, part of Indian conglomerate JSW Group, has inked a memorandum of understanding with the Chhattisgarh government to build a 1GW pumped hydro storage project.

Jamaica has received proposals from a consortium of local and international companies to implement a proposed pumped hydro electric storage (PHES) project.

News in brief from around the world in energy storage.

The award of contracts to 1GW of battery storage was the “biggest news” to emerge from the latest round of Capacity Market auctions held in the UK.