Regional electric utility companies in Japan are playing key roles in the delivery of battery energy storage system (BESS) resources.

Swift Current Energy has encountered a major stumbling block in developing a standalone BESS in Virginia.

A trio of major announcements in the grid-scale BESS market in Chile, with Canadian Solar winning a delivery contract from Colbun, Metlen Energy & Metals selling a solar-plus-storage portfolio to Glenfarne, and Atlas Renewable Energy securing financing for a project.

The system integration arm of SMA Solar and utility RheinEnergie have partnered to deploy BESS projects in Germany, with construction about to launch on the first.

State-owned utility and power generator Eesti Energia has completed and put into commercial operation the first large-scale BESS in Estonia.

Two electric utilities in the US state of Tennessee are launching RFPs for new solar and storage projects.

Utility Alabama Power will develop the state’s first utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) in Walker County, Alabama, US.

A utility in Dubai, UAE, has launched launched an expressions of interest (EOI) call for a solar and storage project.

Latvia state-owned utility and power generation firm Latvenergo intends to deploy 250MW/500MWh of BESS in the next five years.

State-owned utility and power generation firm NEK is deploying BESS at its hydropower plants across Bulgaria.