BHP Group said it is planning to build two solar farms and a battery storage system in partnership with Canada’s TransAlta Renewables at its nickel project site in Western Australia. The global miner said the project will help reduce carbon emissions by 12 percent compared with 2020 levels at its Mt Keith and Leinster operations, […]
NextEra Energy Developing 2.8 GW of US Battery Storage Through 2024
US utility giant NextEra Energy added 1.84GW of renewables and energy storage projects to its backlog in Q2 2021, but its Energy Resources division reported a fiscal loss of US$315 million. Of the 1.84GW NextEra Energy Resources added in the second quarter, roughly 1.45GW was new solar and 105MW was new energy storage. The clean […]
India to Call Bids For 4 GWh of Grid-Scale Battery Storage
Large battery storages can help India’s electricity grids, given the intermittent nature of electricity from clean energy sources such as solar and wind. There is growing traction for India’s playbook for developing a battery storage ecosystem that involves setting up 50-gigawatt hour manufacturing capacity for advance chemistry cell batteries NEW DELHI : In a push […]
Colombia’s First-Ever Battery Storage Tender Won By Canadian Solar
Vertically-integrated solar PV company Canadian Solar has been awarded a 45MW / 45MWh battery storage project by Colombia’s Ministry of Energy and Mines. Rendering of Slate, a solar-plus-storage project which Canadian Solar’s development subsidiary Recurrent Energy is currently working on in King’s County, California. The ministry’s Energy Mining Planning Unit (UPME) launched the tender earlier […]
ARISE IIP Issue Tender For a 390 MW Solar Project With 200 MWh Battery Storage in Togo
ARISE IIP Issue Tender For a 390 MW Solar Project With 200 MWh Battery Storage in Togo. For more information please see below link:
Gresham House Plans to Deploy 852 MW of Battery Storage By Q1 2023
Gresham House Energy Storage Fund plc (LON:GRID) said today it has signed contracts to acquire a further 425 MW of battery energy storage projects from Gresham House Devco Ltd and proposed a GBP-100-million (USD 138m/EUR 117m) placing. The 425-MW so-called current pipeline includes seven projects in the UK, ranging from 35 MW to 100 MW […]
India State-Owned Power Producer NTPC Wants to Install 1 GWh of Energy Storage at Power Plants
NTPC, an independent power producer (IPP) in India with over 65GW of power plants across the country wants to install 1,000MWh of energy storage at its existing generation facilities. The government-owned company has invited Expressions of Interest (EOI) for the installation of battery energy storage systems (BESS) at multiple power plant sites, with the primary […]
Maine Becomes 9th US State to Adopt Energy Storage Deployment Target
Janet Mills, Governor of Maine, has signed legislation that makes hers the ninth US state to have adopted a deployment target for energy storage. On 22 June, the governor’s office announced that Mills had signed ‘LD 528: An act to advance energy storage in Maine’. It sets out a state goal for energy storage development […]
PLI Scheme For National Programme on Advanced Chemistry Cell Battery Storage: EQ’s Webinar
EQ presented a webinar on ‘PLI Scheme for National Programme on Advanced Chemistry Cell Battery Storage’ on June 22, 2021 at IST 04:00. Anil Srivastava Former Principal Adviser and Director General, NITI Aayog participated as keynote speaker in the webinar. Dr. Rashi Gupta, Director of Vision Mechatronics, moderated the session. The other speakers in the […]
Ncondezi, Nesa Plan to Launch Solar, Storage JV in Southern Africa
African power development company Ncondezi Energy Ltd (LON:NCCL) this week announced that its renewables subsidiary signed a term sheet with Johannesburg-based investor Nesa to negotiate setting up a solar and storage-focused joint venture (JV) in the southern Africa’s commercial and industrial (C&I) sector. Through 100%-owned Ncondezi Green Power (NGP), the company signed a pact with […]
