A list of bids for the third window of South Africa’s Battery Energy Storage Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (BESIPPPP) has been revealed.

Oil & gas major TotalEnergies and Canadian Solar have received key state-level approvals for large-scale solar PV-plus-energy storage projects in New South Wales, Australia.

Oil and gas major TotalEnergies has commissioned and started operations on two solar-plus-storage projects in the ERCOT, Texas market, one with the BESS online and another set to be commissioned next year.

Oil and gas major TotalEnergies will build a 100MW/200MWh BESS project from Kyon Energy’s pipeline, its first project after buying the developer.

Oil and gas major TotalEnergies has acquired Kyon Energy, one of the most active battery energy storage system (BESS) project developers in Germany.

Oil and gas major TotalEnergies has put a 380MW solar PV, 255MWh battery storage project into commercial operation in the ERCOT, Texas market.

Another serving of news in brief from around the world in energy storage.

Oil and gas firm TotalEnergies has enlisted subsidiary Saft to deploy a 25MW/75MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) at a refinery in Antwerp, Belgium.

TotalEnergies will deploy a solar PV and battery storage project at Holcim’s Portland Cement plant in Colorado.

Sungrow, EVE Energy Storage and Saft were amongst the big names exhibiting new battery energy storage products at RE+ in California last week.