French renewable energy company Voltalia has completed the expansion of a renewable energy plant in French Guiana, adding a battery energy storage system (BESS) of 10.6MWh.

Guyana, a country on South America’s north coast, has issued an invitation for bids for energy storage projects with a combined capacity of 34MWh. 

On.Energy has raised US$100 million in project financing from UK fund SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust plc (SEEIT) for its US and Canada energy storage project deployments.

The Inter-American Development Bank and Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation are investing up to US$83.3 million in eight solar PV projects in Guyana with 34MWh of co-located energy storage.

Independent Power Producer (IPP) Innergex Renewable Energy has ordered two battery energy storage system (BESS) projects from Mitsubishi Power Americas for co-located sites in Chile, South America.

Listed company Shenzhen CLOU Electronics says it has secured a contract with a “famous American energy company” to supply an energy storage system totalling 485MWh in South America.

Stem Inc is developing what it claimed is the first virtual power plant in South America, aggregating behind-the-meter distributed energy facilities in Chile.

Country part of Latin America’s lithium triangle will tap into sizeable reserves of sought-after metal to create industrial ecosystem, top official says at PV plant launch.