Energy Storage News - July 10th, 2020
This week’s TOP 5 talks about Europe’s hydrogen strategy and Saudi Arabia’s 5-billion USD green ammonia project, Terna’s upcoming auction for 230MW of fast regulation reserves in Italy, start of operations at the 15-MWh Holes Bay project in the United Kingdom, FlexGen’s 12MW/5.4MWh blackstart battery in a Chicago power plant and Siemens Gamesa’s proposal for a 7.6-million-euro solar-plus-storage project in Spain.
Foreword: Take a look at our two upcoming webinars:
- “Energy Storage in Australia – Market of GW Appetite” on July 16, 2020
- “Emerging opportunities for energy storage in Chile” on July 21, 2020
- A great week for green hydrogen after the EU published its Hydrogen Strategy eyeing 40 GW of electrolysers by 2030 and Saudi Arabia unveiled a $5-billion project.
- Italian TSO Terna published regulations for the Fast Reserve project with auctions set for December 10.
- Fotowatio Renewable Ventures and Harmony Energy started operations at their 15-MWh Holes Bay energy storage system in the UK.
- FlexGen installed a 12MW/5.4MWh battery to give blackstart capability to two 77-MW gas turbines in the United States.
- Called Arico Hoya Honda, Siemens Gamesa’s latest project would combine 7.5 MW of solar PV with 7.62 MW of battery storage in the Canary Islands for a total cost of 7.562 million €.