Bulgaria’s Ministry of Energy has launched two tenders to add 1,425MW of renewable power generation to the grid and 350MW of battery energy storage system (BESS) projects.

Atlas Renewable Energy has signed a PPA with state-owned mining company Codelco to deliver 375GWh a year from a solar-plus-storage project in Chile.

Panama has launched a 500MW tender auction for renewables and energy storage, the first in Central America to include storage.

Agreements to progress projects that include energy storage signed by Voltalia during Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Uzbekistan.

Renewable energy technology firm Entech has won a framework contract in France with four public utilities to deploy 50MWh of battery storage.

The downstream arm of vanadium producer Bushveld Minerals and other industry sources have responded to yesterday’s article about flow battery technology’s suitability for a tender in South Africa.

The 513MW battery storage tender in South Africa has challenging domestic content and location requirements while flow battery projects will not meet the RTE requirement, consultants told Energy-Storage.news.

Swathes of energy storage projects including battery storage and pumped hydro have been approved by the regulator in Greece, as the country prepares for a big battery storage auction.

News in brief from around the world in energy storage.

Greece has doubled its 2030 target for energy storage deployment to 3GW as it aims for a renewable electricity generation proportion of 70%.