Energy Storage News - September 25th, 2020

This week’s TOP 5 features news about Tennessee Valley Authority's first battery announcement, introduction of a new interface for balancing market participants in the UK, approval of FERC order 2222 for distributed energy resources, plans for a large tender for offgrid generation resources in Brazil and contract agreement for Juwi's 25 MW battery in Colorado.


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  1. A 40 MWh battery storage project will be deployed by the Tennessee Valley Authority in the Knoxville area. 

  2. National Grid ESO implemented a new Application Programming Interface, facilitating the participation of small bidders in the UK's Balancing Market. 

  3. US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved order 2222 which enables distributed energy resources such as storage systems to participate in the regional wholesale market through aggregation.

  4. The Empresa de Perquisa Energetica, a Brazilian public agency, will issue a tender for generation and storage assets for 23 offgrid locations in March 2021.

  5. German developer Juwi inked a Power Purchase Agreement with Colorado Spring Utilities for a solar park coupled to a 25 MW battery.