Energy-Storage.news'' publisher Solar Media will host the 9th annual Energy Storage Summit EU in London, 21-22 February 2024. This year it is moving to a larger venue, bringing together Europe''s leading investors, policymakers, developers, utilities, energy buyers and service providers all in one place.
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French oil major TotalEnergies has announced plans to develop a 1 GW solar power plant in Iraq to supply electricity to the Basrah regional grid. The company …
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The Canadian province''s government announced yesterday (9 May) that it has made its selection of winners in the Long-Term 1 Request for Proposals (LT1 RFP), adding 410.69MW from three bids by non-storage resources (biogas, natural gas) to 10 battery storage resource bids totalling 1,748.22MW, to procure a total 2,194.91MW. …
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The Australian government has granted approvals to the ''Melbourne Renewable Energy Hub'' (MREH), a 1,200MW/2.4GWh two-hour duration battery energy storage system (BESS) in the state of Victoria. MREH is owned and developed by Singapore-headquartered renewables investor and developer Equis, in partnership with …
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The Azerbaijan Ministry of Energy said 3 February that a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) had been signed "in relation to development of a Battery Energy Storage System in the Republic of Azerbaijan". ACWA Power and the government of Azerbaijan have signed an agreement for a battery energy storage system in the central …
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Plans to nearly double the output and capacity of the world''s biggest battery energy storage system (BESS) project to date have been announced by its owner, Vistra Energy. The Texas-headquartered integrated utility and power generation company said it wants to add another 350MW/1,400MWh BESS to the Moss Landing Energy …
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Infrastructure investor InfraVia Capital Partners has bought a majority stake in Giga Storage, a Netherlands-headquartered BESS developer which is building a 2.4GWh project in Belgium. Paris-headquartered InfraVia announced the deal yesterday (15 May) which will see the founder-led management team retain a ''significant'' stake in the …
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The Iraqi Ministry of Electricity has been aiming at increasing the share of renewable energy in Iraq but was faced with several challenges including the contractual process for utility …
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Image: Sembcorp Industries. The government of Sri Lanka has entered into a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Australian firm United Solar Group (USG) for a 700MW floating solar and storage ...
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Recently-formed energy storage developer Ingrid Capacity is building a 70MW battery storage facility in Sweden for a delivery date as early as H1 2024, the largest planned in the Nordic country. The company is planning the one-hour system for an interconnection point managed by utility E.ON, the German-headquartered company, in …
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March 10, 2022. Sungrow has announced the signing of a contract with Afcon to supply its latest liquid cooled energy storage system solution for a 16 MW/64 MWh project in Israel. As the country ...
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Image: Harmony Energy. The closure of UK battery storage specialist EPC and independent connection provider (ICP) firm G2 Energy has been confirmed by Companies House, with a senior manager describing "unsympathetic clients" in comments given to Energy-Storage.news and that the bulk of the team is joining outsourcing giant …
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Electrochemical storage (batteries) will be the leading energy storage solution in MENA in the short to medium terms, led by sodium-sulfur (NaS) and lithium-ion (Li-Ion) batteries. Several MENA countries - especially in the GCC - are equipped with competitive advantages in renewable plus
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Three solar power plant projects are in development in Alberta, Canada, which will add nearly 300MW of battery storage to the province''s grid. Alberta''s first grid-scale battery project, Windcharger, a 10MW/20MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) at a wind farm, was only brought online in late 2020 by developer TransAlta Renewables.
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Iraq is planning to build solar plants and its first green hydrogen project as part of a strategy to tackle power shortages and reduce its carbon footprint. The country''s …
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Signed in September 2021, the GGIP has for main purpose to enhance the development of Iraq''s natural resources to improve the country''s electricity supply. According to these agreements, TotalEnergies and its partners will invest approximately …
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July 21, 2020. Public utility NV Energy has announced plans to build three solar parks and a large-scale transmission line project in Nevada, as it looks to transform the state''s clean energy ...
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Updated 27 July 2021: An RWE spokesperson told Energy-Storage.news that the combined capacity of the BESS installations will be 128MWh across the two sites. It was also confirmed that the project will be commercially-oriented, rather than a demonstration of the technology or potential business models with the two systems mainly providing ...
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The European Union (EU) Commission has approved a state aid scheme aiming to fund the rollout of over 9GW/71GWh of energy storage in Italy. The scheme totalling €17.7 billion (US$19.5 billion) will provide annual payments covering investment and operating costs for those developing, building and operating large-scale energy storage …
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The Portuguese island of Madeira will be able to radically reduce its fossil fuel consumption while keeping electricity supply stable and reliable, thanks to battery energy storage system (BESS) technology. The island''s utility company Empresa de Electricidade da Madeira (EEM) has awarded a contract to consortium partners Siemens …
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US$380 million in support for long-duration energy storage projects in California has been included in the state''s budget for 2022-2023. Governor Gavin Newsom announced the budget on 9 January, applicable for the next fiscal year beginning in July.
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The project partners have worked together on other solar farms in Japan before and in 2018 began development work on a Hokkaido plant with a larger battery storage system (102.3MW of solar with 27MWh of …
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Sungrow has announced that it has secured a contract to supply its fully integrated Energy Storage System to the 100 MWac Chisholm Grid project in Fort Worth, Texas. Chisholm Grid has been under ...
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The biggest battery energy storage system (BESS) in mainland France went into operation in late January, and will provide grid-balancing services to national transmission system operator RTE. France-headquartered multinational energy company Total was contracted by RTE for the project, which has 25MWac rated output and …
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The other Grid Booster project has been announced by another TSO, TenneT, which is planning two 100MW one-hour systems, also for completion in 2025. If all three went online today, they would increase the size of the German utility-scale energy storage market by around two-thirds .
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Iraq is planning to launch new projects for solar power plants with a total capacity of 5,000 MW in 2023, electricity minister Adel Karim said last week. Speaking to …
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Iraq is planning to develop seven PV plants with a combined capacity of 700MW and reach 10GW of installed solar by 2030, the country''s oil ministry said in a statement. The largest …
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The first grid-scale battery energy storage project in the Canadian province of Alberta is on-track to go into operation this month, ... The company is targeting 100% clean electricity by 2025 and just before the end of …
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Image: Xcel Energy. US utility Xcel Energy has announced plans to decarbonise its operations in the US Midwest, which involve the construction of 3.6GW of new renewable power generation capacity ...
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Key contracts have been awarded in Queensland, Australia, to work on what would be the world''s largest pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) plant. As the state works towards ending its historical dependency on coal, the state government is behind the plan to build the 5GW Pioneer-Burdekin Pumped Hydro Project, which would offer long …
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Investor Claritas and system integrator Hynfra Energy Storage (HES) have signed a framework agreement to deploy half a gigawatt of utility-scale battery energy storage in Poland. The two firms, based in the Netherlands and Poland respectively, signed the agreement last week (13 December). The battery energy storage systems deployed …
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