Financial close achieved for 100MWh battery energy storage project

Financial close has been reached for a 25MW / 100MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Belgium which has also been successful in a grid capacity auction alongside gas-fired power plants. The battery system will be built in Ruien, East Flanders, co-developed through a joint venture (JV) between the European arm of Japanese

Floating Solar Photovoltaic System Installation Completed in Tuvalu

Through this new FSPV system 174.2 megawatts per hour of electricity will be generated each year, meeting two percent of Funafuti''s annual energy demand. This innovative clean energy

UK energy storage deployments grew by record 800MWh in 2022

The first major utility-scale battery storage project was energised in 2017 – a 50MW/25MWh project in Pelham, developed and owned by Statera Energy. Going forward, deployment levels are likely to see annual increases; there is over 2.6GW/4.3GWh of energy storage projects under construction right now which will likely be completed within the

Energy Storage Awards, 21 November 2024, Hilton London

A couple of those project names may be familiar to regular Energy-Storage.news readers: Edwards Sanborn shares a name and location with one of the largest — if not the largest — lithium-ion solar-plus-storage projects in construction globally, with the standalone BESS contracted for separately.. The MOSS350 project at Moss Landing

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The Winners Are Set to Be Announced for the Energy Storage Awards! Energy Storage Awards, 21 November 2024, Hilton London Bankside. Book Your Table battery storage tender. November 6, 2024. Saudi Arabia''s government entity tasked with procuring electricity generation projects has commenced the qualification process for a 2GW/8GWh battery

Eight-hour lithium-ion project wins in California

Energy-Storage.news reported earlier this week as one of those IOUs, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), announced its own agreements with 6.4GWh of four-hour lithium-ion battery projects, including an expansion phase planned at Vistra Energy''s Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility, the world''s biggest lithium-ion battery energy storage system

Ireland''s planning body approves 200MW battery storage project

Strategic Power Projects managing director Paul Carson. Image: Strategic Power Projects. Ireland''s national planning body An Bord Pleanàla has approved a €140 million (US$135.7 million) proposed battery storage facility set to be developed by Strategic Power Projects at Dunnstown, County Kildare.

RES secures planning approval for 100MW UK battery storage project

The development has consent for 51 energy storage containers and 42 transformers, with construction expected to start in late 2022. The utility-grade batteries will store electricity from the grid at times of low demand and high renewables, and export back to the grid at times of high demand and low renewables.

Hawaii utility procuring clean energy projects with 2.1GWh BESS

A solar-plus-storage project on the island of O''ahu, Hawaii, deployed by Wartsila. Image: Clearway. Hawaii''s main utility Hawaiian Electric has entered into contract negotiations with the developers of 15 renewable energy projects, including solar, wind and a combined 2.1GWh of energy storage.

Chile opens land bidding for 13GWh of storage projects in North

Image: Atlas Renewable Energy. The Chilean Ministry of Energy has opened a public land bidding auction seeking 13GWh of standalone energy storage projects. In coordination with the Ministry of National Assets, the programme aims to allocate energy storage capacity across four regions – Arica and Parinacota, Tarapaca, Antofagasta and Atacama.

Three new energy storage projects that prove the versatility and

While most solar PV systems that are co-located with battery storage have in past been AC-coupled, requiring two separate inverters, one for the solar and one for the battery system, there has since about 2018 been a rise in the number of project developers and designers electing to go DC-coupled.. Reducing the balance of plant equipment and therefore

BYD to supply BESS for ''world''s largest energy storage project''

The project, which was revealed by Grenergy in November 2023, will pair 1GW of solar PV with 4.1GWh of energy storage, which the company said makes it the largest energy storage projects in the world. "The agreement with a leading company like BYD demonstrates our firm commitment to energy storage and represents a major step forward in securing the supply

Construction starts on first utility-scale BESS projects in Idaho

Construction has started on two battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in Idaho which will be delivered by Powin Energy. The projects are an 80MW system at utility Idaho Power''s Hemingway substation and a 40MW project adjoining the Black Mesa solar PV plant. The company is the state''s transmission system operator (TSO) and also owns

230MW BESS comes online at Bureau of Land

A 230MW battery energy storage system (BESS) from NextEra Energy Resources, part of a large solar-plus-storage project, has come online in California. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which manages the land on which the 94-acre project is located in Riverside County, announced the start of commercial operations on the Desert Sunlight

Croatia looks to fund 20MWh of energy storage projects

The deadline for submitting proposals in 19 June, 2023, and the Call page indicated that the energy storage technology must be battery-based. In September 2020, Energy-Storage.news reported on a €20 million grant from the EU to Croatia-based energy storage operator IE-Energy for the firm to deploy projects in the country.

Tuvalu Energy Sector Development Project Procurement Plan

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Huawei wins contract for world''s largest energy storage project

Huawei Digital Power has announced the signing of a key contract with SEPCOIII for its NEOM Red Sea project, which involves 400 MW of PV plus a 1300 MWh battery energy storage solution (BESS

Utility SDG&E, developers Tenaska and Arevon move

Saticoy, a 100MW/400MWh battery storage project by Arevon, inaugurated last year in California. Image: Arevon Asset Management. Progress has been made on 1.8GWh of battery energy storage projects in the service areas of California investor-owned utilities (IOUs) San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) and Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E).

Ireland: Grid-connected energy storage surpasses first gigawatt

Long duration energy storage (LDES) is the next logical step in adopting further energy storage assets, as the technology can store more and release more energy to the electricity network. An example of one of the inaugural projects introducing long duration to Ireland is a 4-hour battery energy storage system (BESS) delivered by Fluence and

Floating Solar Photovoltaic System Installation Completed in Tuvalu

The project aims to facilitate the development and utilisation of feasible renewable energy resources and applications of energy efficient technologies in Tuvalu. The disruptive impact of global fuel prices has had significant repercussions on both local businesses and households, particularly in the Tuvalu''s remote islands.

''World''s largest'' compressed air energy storage project connects

The CAES project is designed to charge 498GWh of energy a year and output 319GWh of energy a year, a round-trip efficiency of 64%, but could achieve up to 70%, China Energy said. 70% would put it on par with flow batteries, while pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) can achieve closer to 80%.

Iberdrola to deploy 300MWh of battery storage projects in Spain

Energy-Storage.news provided a detailed look at where winning projects were located within Spain in our coverage of the auction results. Some 186MWh of the energy storage projects awarded funding are located in the Canary Islands. Iberdrola didn''t reveal which company would provide the lithium-ion BESS units for the six projects.

Renewable energy in Tuvalu

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Renewable energy in Tuvalu is a growing sector of the country''s energy supply. Tuvalu has committed to sourcing 100% of its electricity from renewable energy. This is considered possible because of the small size of the population of Tuvalu and its abundant solar energy resources due to its tropical location. It is somewhat complicated because Tuvalu consists of nine inhabited islands. The Tuvalu National Energy Policy (TNEP) was formulated in 2009, and the Energy Str

UK government awards funding to longer-duration energy storage

Anglo-American flow battery provider Invinity Energy Systems was awarded funding for a 40MWh project. Image: Invinity Energy Systems. The first awards of funding designed to "turbocharge" UK projects developing long-duration energy storage technologies have been made by the country''s government, with £6.7 million (US$9.11 million) pledged.

Increasing Access to Renewable Energy Project: Project

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''World-first'' molten hydroxide salt energy storage project online

Hyme Energy has inaugurated a molten hydroxide salt energy storage project in Denmark, the first such deployment in the world, it claimed. The system has been built as part of a project called ''Molten Salt Storage – MOSS'', located in Esbjerg, Denmark, and is the world''s first MW-scale thermal energy storage unit based on molten

European Investment Bank supports thermal, gravity energy storage projects

A total of 311 applications were received for clean energy or decarbonisation projects after the call for submissions opened last summer. Of these, seven were selected to receive direct funding from a €1.1 billion budget and include hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, advanced solar cell manufacturing and other technologies.

AES Andes completes Latin America largest energy storage project

The company started construction of the project in October 2020 and then stated that the battery used for it would be provided by Fluence, the energy storage technology provider which counts AES Corporation and engineering solutions company Siemens among its main shareholders.. Moreover, AES Andes expects to complete another solar-plus-storage