Utility Eneco and Corre Energy have signed an agreement for the latter to deploy a 320MW, 84-hour duration compressed air energy storage system (CAES) in Groningen, the Netherlands. Dublin-based Corre Energy plans to build the facility in a salt cavern in the municipality of Zuidwending. Exploratory drilling will start in 2023 to assess if the […]
Energy Storage
OX2 wins auctions for solar and energy storage projects in Poland – EQ Mag
OX2 has won auctions in Poland for a solar farm with a total installed capacity of up to 100 MW and an energy storage project with a capacity of 50 MW. Both projects are part of OX2’s portfolio and will now move forward. The solar farm that will with an installed capacity of up to […]
Origis Energy and Mitsubishi Power to Bring Battery Energy Storage Projects to the Southeast United States – EQ Mag
Projects Will Add 600 Megawatt-Hours of Storage Capacity to Origis Solar Sites MIAMI & LAKE MARY, Fla. : Origis Energy, one of America’s largest solar and energy storage developers, has contracted Mitsubishi Power Americas to deliver three utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects totaling 150 megawatts / 600 megawatt hours. The projects will be […]
Longer duration energy storage – EQ Mag
The UK’s energy system relies on the storage of fossil fuels to manage variations in supply and demand over varying timescales. As these are replaced to meet the net zero emissions target, new types of low-carbon, longer duration energy storage will be needed to provide secure energy supplies. This POSTnote examines different low-carbon storage technologies, […]
Fluence Signed an MOU with EGAT to Develop Thailand Energy Storage Market, Expand Footprint in Southeast Asia – EQ Mag
BANGKOK, Thailand : Fluence Energy, Inc. (“Fluence”) (NASDAQ: FLNC), a leading global provider of energy storage products and services, and cloud-based software for renewables and storage, and the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT), today announced a memorandum of understanding to develop the battery-based energy storage market in Thailand. Fluence and EGAT aim to increase […]
Energy storage and the energy transition – EQ Mag
The bulk of her time is taken up with carbon project development and trying to encourage a circular economy in South Africa. “Energy is the low hanging fruit to creating to stimulus to encourage reinvestment into water nexus and reforestation and all the other waste areas we should be looking at,” said Dean. Through her […]
Sungrow Forges a Contract with ENGIE to Supply 638 MWh Liquid Cooled Energy Storage System to Chile – EQ Mag
SANTIAGO, Chile : Sungrow, the global leading inverter and energy storage system supplier, forged a contract with ENGIE to supply 638 MWh of its DC-coupled liquid cooled energy storage system (ESS) solution to Chile. As one of the largest of its kind in Latin America and one of the world’s largest DC-coupled solar-plus-storage plants, the […]
Eight batteries to be built around Australia to increase renewable energy storage capacity – EQ Mag
Energy minister Chris Bowen says the batteries – shared between four states – will increase capacity tenfold to help stabilise the grid Eight large batteries to store renewable energy will be built around Australia to support the grid and help keep energy prices down, the federal government has said. The government-owned Australian Renewable Energy Agency […]
REPowerEU Rules on Accelerated Permitting Apply to all Energy Storage – EQ Mag
The European Parliament, in plenary session, voted on the REPowerEU amendments to the Renewable Energy, Energy Performance of Buildings and Energy Efficiency Directives. Unveiled in May, the objective of the Directives is to strengthen European energy security, jeopardised by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The European Commission proposal outlined new rules to speed up renewable […]
Greenko enters into partnership with NTPC for energy storage and flexible & despatchable RE power supply solutions – EQ Mag
Greenko Energies Pvt Ltd (Greenko) and NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Ltd. (NVVN), a wholly owned subsidiary of NTPC Limited – India’s largest power generation with generation fleet in excess of 60 GW and transitioning into Renewables, have entered into an MOU with an intent to explore possibility of development of Renewable Energy (RE) based RTC, […]