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Energy storage news - October 18th, 2019
This week’s TOP 5 includes PacifiCorp’s plans to host up to 2.8 GW of storage by 2038, the commissioning of National Grid’s 48MWh Nantucket storage system in Massachusetts, the installation of the Balkan’s first Tesla storage system of 12.6MW/22.6 MWh in Jesenice - Slovenia, a $38-million investment in a 30-MW solar plus 13.5 MWh storage system at Mali’s Fekola gold mine and the removal of a 49.9-MW planning cap regulation to pave the way for bigger batteries in the United Kingdom.
Read moreEnergy storage news - October 11th, 2019
This week’s TOP 5 includes the proposal of fourteen battery storage projects amassing more than 690MW of capacity to a $75 million New South Wales grant, the selection of three storage projects totalling 110MW of installed capacity under Ireland’s DS3 program, the selection of Engie to provide 50 MW of solar plus 42MW/300MWh of storage to the state of Guam, the clearing of an €18 million loan for N’Djamena’s Djermaya solar-plus-storage project by the African Development Bank and the inauguration of a Hitachi 2MW/2MWh battery storage system in the Philippines.
Read moreEnergy storage news - October 04th, 2019
This week’s TOP 5 includes a deal of California-based East Bay Community Energy for a pipeline of 225-MW solar generation plus 80MW/160MWh of storage, GE’s contract to deliver 100 MWh of battery storage to Convergent, ESA’s draft of an emergency response plan following recent fires in energy storage facilities, the announcement of a project combining 6 MW of solar with 5MW/2.5MWh of storage in the Pacific island of Nauru and Turkey’s publishing of draft guidelines to integrate energy storage in its power system.
Read moreEnergy storage news - September 27th, 2019
This week’s TOP 5 includes the procurement of 1.4 GWh of storage by Eskom in South Africa, NRStor and Honeywell partnering to deploy 300 MW of storage in the USA and Canada, Three European countries committing 350 M$ to finance solar and storage projects in developing countries, Energport deploying a 72 MWh battery system on the PJM interconnection in the USA, and NEC ES and Ambri working together to develop an energy storage system based on Ambri’s technology.
Read moreEnergy storage news - September 20th, 2019
This week’s TOP 5 includes New York’s plan to replace 16 gas peakers with up to 316 MW of battery storage, GE’s selection for the coupling of a 100MW, 3-hour battery storage system to a 200-MW solar PV project in South Australia, the start of operations at Africa’s ‘largest off-grid solar hybrid’ system comprising 8.1 MWh of battery storage, the intention of solar developer Nexamp to build up a 51-MWh portfolio of energy storage and the publication of the NFPA 855 standard on energy storage fire hazards.
Read moreEnergy storage news - September 13th, 2019
This week’s TOP 5 includes Neoen’s massive solar-plus-wind-plus-storage project in Australia involving up to 900 MW of storage, Los Angeles’s approval of the US’s cheapest solar-plus-storage contract, Hanwha and Lumcloon Energy’s announcement regarding a 200-MW storage project in Ireland, the development of a multi-phase AUD 1.2 billion solar-plus-storage project in Victoria - Australia and the European Investment Bank’s intention to refocus on energy storage.
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