Big names in the downstream battery storage market have signed up to join an initiative aimed at simplifying BESS procurement.  

Welcome to the first edition of In Case You Missed It (ICYMI), a recap of last week’s biggest news stories in energy storage.

Trina Storage, the battery storage arm of major Chinese solar PV company Trinasolar, has signed a 1GWh MoU to supply products in Japan.

South Korean battery manufacturer SK On’s US production facilities will supply NeoVolta Power with 9GWh of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) pouch cells under a five-year deal.

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.

Chile continues to be Latin America’s hotspot for energy storage deployments, with a major new deal for Grenergy and Engie bringing a project online in the past week.

Sungrow has signed an agreement with Romanian energy solutions provider ENEVO Group to supply 1GWh of BESS across projects in Romania.

Hithium will supply its latest 6.25MWh DC block products to engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company Solarpro, for projects in Eastern Europe.

Fluence has deepened its partnership with Ukraine-headquartered energy company DTEK, agreeing to supply a large-scale battery storage project in Poland.

Hithium will supply two projects in Saudi Arabia with ‘the world’s first mass-produced kiloampere-hour (kAh) cells’.