Horizon Power has submitted an application under Australia’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act for a 239MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Broome, Western Australia.
Technology provider Dalian Rongke Power (Rongke Power) and infrastructure developer China Three Gorges Corporation (CTG) have brought online the world’s first gigawatt-hour-scale flow battery energy storage project.
IPP Zelestra and utility EDP’s recent PPA deal for a solar-plus-storage project in Spain was the first of its kind in Europe and ‘moves the market forward’, a Zelestra executive told Energy-Storage.news.
The World Bank’s International Finance Corporation has agreed a financing package for a 1GW solar PV power plant paired with 600MWh of energy storage in Egypt.
Two major Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region projects combining solar PV and battery storage have progressed in Saudi Arabia and Egypt through ACWA Power and Scatec, respectively.
RWE Clean Energy has commissioned the Stoneridge Solar PV project in Texas, adding 200MW of solar PV and 100MW/200MWh BESS to its operational portfolio.