Utility Colbún has inaugurated a solar-plus-storage project with a 32MWh battery energy storage system in the Atacama region, the first of an 800MW deployment target.

Philippines power generator and utility Aboitiz Power will put a 49MW battery energy storage system into commercial operation this month, and has started construction on another.

GIGA Buffalo, the largest battery energy storage system in the Netherlands provided by technology group Wärtsilä, has been officially inaugurated after 10 months of construction.

Wärtsilä will supply two 10MW/10MWh battery energy storage systems to a utility in the Cayman Islands.

Clearway Energy Group has brought online the first ever utility-scale solar-plus-storage project on the Hawaiian island of O’ahu.

After falling by more than two-thirds in quarter one 2022, energy storage order intake increased 19% in quarter two for marine and energy solutions company Wärtsilä.

Andy Tang, VP of energy storage & optimisation for global energy technology group Wärtsilä, discusses software, supply chain, non-lithium storage technologies and more in this exclusive interview.

RWE has switched on its Hickory Park project combining 195.5MW of solar PV with 40MW/80MWh of battery storage in Georgia, US.

UK-based energy storage investor-developer Pivot Power is to develop 100MW / 200MWh of battery storage split across two sites in the West Midlands region of England in partnership with energy technology provider Wärtsilä.

A 50MW lithium-ion battery storage system which will form part of a transmission system-connected ‘Energy Superhub’ has been commissioned in Oxford, England, while another 100MW transmission-connected project in the country has reached financial close and is set to begin construction soon.