Energy Storage news - October 30th, 2020
This week’s TOP 5 features news about the start of a renewable and storage tender process by NV Energy, Sydney's area transmission system operator synthetic inertia battery project, commissioning of the first utility-scale battery in Singapore by Wärtsilä, announcement of an offgrid solar-plus-storage installation in Mali and award of a governmental grant for an innovative floating battery storage project in Singapore.
- Nevada utility NV Energy is looking to procure new renewable capacity including energy storage resources.
- Australian system operator TransGrid will deploy and operate a 50 MW / 75 MWh battery to compensate for the inertia loss in New South Wales.
- A 2.4 MW, 1-hour battery storage system was installed by Wärtsilä in Singapore.
- Canadian mining company Robex signed an agreement with Vivo Energy to deploy a 2.6 MWh storage system at the Nampala gold mine in Mali.
- Singapore's Energy Market Authority granted a 7-million USD grant to a floating energy storage project.