Energy storage news - December 18th, 2020
This week’s TOP 5 features news about the agreement between Mortenson and Terra Gen regarding the construction of a remarkable solar-plus-storage installation in California, the financial close of a 100 MW battery storage project in Queensland, the results of the Fast Reserve frequency control service auction in Italy, the release of a RFP by Arizona Public Services to procure 60 MW of storage and the plans for a wind, solar and storage renewable plant in the Netherlands.
- Mortenson will serve as EPC on the massive Edwards & Sanborn solar-plus-storage project in California, which includes a 2.2 GWh battery system.
- A 100 MW battery storage system will be developed by the independant power producer Vena Energy in Queensland.
- Almost 250 MW of energy storage systems were awarded during Terna's Fast Reserve first auction in Italy.
- Arizona Public Services has opened a Request for Proposals procedure in order to acquire up to 60 MW of battery storage systems which will be installed on existing solar plants.
- The 12 MW energy storage system of Vattenfall's hybrid plant in the Netherlands will be supplied by Alfen.