Ingeteam has announced that it was supplier of the full battery energy storage system (BESS) solution to Spain’s first-ever solar PV plant equipped with energy storage from commissioning.

Construction has begun on a 150MW / 150MWh battery storage project at the site of a former fossil fuel plant site in Victoria, Australia.

The energy storage arm of solar inverter manufacturer Sungrow will supply 1,000MW of battery energy storage system (BESS) equipment to be deployed across six large-scale projects in Texas for customer Broad Reach Power. 

This edition of news in brief from around the world in energy storage focuses on solar-plus-storage updates from Africa.

Power and energy systems technology group Wärtsilä has completed work on two large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in the Philippines.

Sungrow has supplied a 1500Vdc, DC-coupled PV-plus-storage system to support SolarSmart, a programme run for customers unable to put solar on their own homes by Florida municipal utility Jacksonville Electric Authority (JEA).