Engie and Gore Street progress big battery projects in ERCOT
December 19, 2023. Engie''s Sun Valley project in ERCOT, Texas. Image: Engie North America. Utility and IPP Engie has commissioned a 100MW/100MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) while Gore Street has enlisted Nidec as EPC partner for a 75MW project, both in the ERCOT, Texas market.
Cape Verde | Africa Energy Portal
Market Information. Access to electricity in Cabo Verde reached 93% in 2018 from 87.1% in 2012 though in rural areas access remains below the national average (83.1%). Renewable energy accounts for 20.3% of total supply and an electricity sector Master Plan (2018-2040) was designed to help achieve 50% of renewable energy generation by 2030.
Cabeolica to expand wind and energy storage capacity in Republic of Cape Verde
He adds that the Cabeolica project will increase the proportion of renewable energy in Cape Verde''s electricity mix to 30% by 2025, up from 20% currently. This will allow the archipelago off the coast of West Africa to save 1 million euros each year on imports of the fuel that powers its thermal power plants.
Bidding structures to accommodate renewables in electricity
This bidding structure''s central idea is to put the burden of market participants'' physical limits on the market operator by letting them reveal all their complicated operating features in advance of the market clearing procedure. Complex bids not only comprise price-quantity pairs, but also a full depiction of all the parties'' individual cost
Chile seeks multi-gigawatts of large-scale storage for 2026-2028
The government of Chile will launch a bill this year to procure large-scale energy storage systems for commissioning in 2026 totalling US$2 billion of investment, on top of 5GWh already being sought for 2027-28. Speaking to the country''s parliament last week, president Gabriel Boric said the new bill would lead to the deployment of the
16GW of batteries registered for Poland capacity market auction
Around 16GW of battery energy storage system (BESS) projects got preliminary registration for this year''s capacity market auction in Poland, developer Hynfra told Energy-Storage.news. As reported here at the time, the company had a 7.5MW BESS project win an award in last year''s auction in December which handed out a total of
Chile to hold another big auction for renewables and energy storage this year
Chile has published details of its latest power auction set to take place later this year that will contract 5,250GWh per annum for 15 years. The country''s National Energy Commission (CNE) said it will carry out the tender to support the government''s decarbonisation efforts and the promotion of renewables and energy storage systems
Construction starts on largest battery storage project in Belgium
Construction has started on what will be the largest battery storage project in Belgium at 25MW/100MWh when completed later this year. Nala Renewables'' lithium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS) will come online at metals conglomerate Nyrstar''s zinc smelting operation in Balen, in Belgium''s Flemish region, by the end of 2022.
Cabo Verde: Tender issued for two battery energy storage systems
The Cabo Verde Ministry Of Industry, Commerce And Energy has begun a search for developers for battery energy storage systems (Bess) on the islands of São
Gigawatts of energy storage approved in Greece
The government in Greece is looking to provide financial support for up to 900MW of energy storage capacity through a tender as previously reported by Energy-Storage.news. The country has an overall
Italy has unique opportunities in energy storage
March 1, 2024. The panel discussion on Day 1 of the Energy Storage Summit EU in London last week. Image: Solar Media. Italy''s grid-scale energy storage market opportunities are unlike anywhere else, but many challenges and uncertainties around the different revenue streams remain, including the upcoming MACSE capacity market auction.
Pacific Green enters Australia with 1GW/2.5GWh battery park
In March 2021, it signed an exclusivity agreement targeting the development of 1.1GW of energy storage in the UK by this year with infrastructure project developer TUPA Energy. In December 2022, Pacific Green acquired the in-development 249MW/373.5MWh Sheaf Energy Park project in southern England through that
Cabo Verde: Solar PV tender launched | African Energy
Cabo Verde: Solar PV tender launched. State-owned Unidade de Gestāo de Projetos Especiais (UGPE) published a tender on 8 March to build four solar PV plants, including a 1.3MW plant on Fogo island, a 1.2MW facility on Santo Antāo island and two 0.4MW plants on the islands of Sāo Nicolau and Maio, along with a storage component.
Cape Verde tender: Procurement of battery energy storage system
This international invitation for tenders relates to the contracts for bidding document for procurement of battery energy storage system, including installation,
Top 5 largest energy storage projects in Africa
Ingula Pumped Energy Storage Scheme – 21 GWh. Comprising four 333 MW pump turbines that generate a total of 1,332 MW of electricity, the Ingula Pumped Storage Scheme (Ingula PSS) is a pumped storage power station that encompasses two dams, designed for water capacity of 22 million cubic meters. Straddling the border of
Cape Verde invites bids for energy storage systems
The government of Cape Verde is inviting bids for the design, supply and installation of five battery energy storage systems on Fogo Island (2.08 MW/2.08 MWh),
''World''s largest'' compressed air energy storage project connects
A compressed air energy storage (CAES) project in Hubei, China, has come online, with 300MW/1,500MWh of capacity. The 5-hour duration project, called Hubei Yingchang, was built in two years with a total investment of CNY1.95 billion (US$270 million) and uses abandoned salt mines in the Yingcheng area of Hubei, China''s sixth-most
Iberdrola to deploy 300MWh of battery storage projects in Spain
Utility and independent power producer (IPP) Iberdrola will deploy battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in Spain adding up to 150MW/300MWh, to be co-located with existing PV plants. The six new BESS projects were amongst 1.9GWh of energy storage projects awarded grant funding in a recent tender called PERTE
2,800MWh of battery storage projects win New South Wales tender
November 22, 2023. A recently-completed BESS project for tender winner AGL, at Torrens Island, South Australia. Image: Wärtsilä-AGL. Three large-scale battery storage projects and one virtual power plant were the winners of a recent competitive tender held on behalf of the government of New South Wales (NSW), Australia.
Ontario picks another 142MW/1,136MWh of BESS through expedited RFP
It''s important to note also that the RFP stipulated energy storage projects must be able to discharge their contracted energy output over a 4-hour duration. That means all the projects awarded will be 4-hour, and that Hagersville, at 300MW/1200MWh, will be Ontario''s biggest BESS project so far, bigger even than the province''s flagship
Bidding Overview of Domestic Energy Storage in June
The largest bidding project in June was the centralized procurement of a 3.5GWh lithium iron phosphate battery energy storage system by CEEC for the year.
South Africa: Scatec amongst winners of 513MW battery storage
Norway-based IPP Scatec has won preferred bidder status for a 103MW/412MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project in South Africa, part of a 513MW tender. The firm has won the award for the Mogobe BESS, one of four to be granted preferred bidder status under the Battery Energy Storage Independent Power Producer
Europe''s energy storage transformation
The European energy storage industry has witnessed remarkable growth over the last decade, going from 9MW of project announcements in 2010 up to a total of 5,700MW in 2020 (year to date). Out of these projects, around 1.7GW are operational while the remaining 4GW are either announced or under construction (Figure 1) [1]. arbitrage,
Grenergy plans ''world''s largest'' 4.1GWh Chile battery storage
Spain-based developer and IPP Grenergy has detailed its investment plans for 2023-2026, totalling US$2.6 billion including what it claimed is the ''largest BESS in the world'' in Chile. According to its Strategic Plan 2023-2026, the IPP will commit US$2.6 billion to these expansions, with US$1.5 billion allocated to solar PV and US$800
Red Sands, Africa''s largest standalone battery energy storage
Globeleq will work on Africa''s largest standalone battery energy storage system closely with leading global battery and balance-of-plant suppliers. According to the company, the project will require an investment of approximately US$300 million and will take 24 months to construct after financial close. The latter is expected to be reached
Cape Verde invites bids to supply four energy storage systems
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Belgium''s 2027-28 capacity market auction yields contracts for 357MW of new battery storage
After the first round, which was for the 2025-2026 delivery period, head of analysis at consultancy Clean Horizon Corentin Baschet told Energy-Storage.news that the award of contracts to 130MW/540MWh of BESS, all new-build, was a sign that the country''s.
Cape Verde invites bids to supply four energy storage systems
Cape Verde''s Special Project Management Unit is inviting bids to design, supply and install four energy storage systems (ESS). The ESS will be located on Fogo
Colombia''s first-ever battery storage tender won by Canadian Solar
July 13, 2021. Rendering of Slate, a solar-plus-storage project which Canadian Solar''s development subsidiary Recurrent Energy is currently working on in King''s County, California. Image: Canadian Solar. Vertically-integrated solar PV company Canadian Solar has been awarded a 45MW / 45MWh battery storage project by Colombia''s Ministry of
Design and implementation of a Battery Energy Storage System
Cape Verde is undertaking a pilot project on batteries energy storage for Renewable Integration. Mercados – Aries International participated in the Project performing the
Netherlands: Barriers to battery storage business case can be toppled
Project technology supplier Wärtsilä has claimed it will be Europe''s first large-scale lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery storage project. In fact, as some readers got in touch to point out post-publication, it will not be: there have been some of those in operation in the UK as early as 2017 and at least one project in Belgium is thought to use
BYD to supply BESS for ''world''s largest energy storage project''
EV and BESS company BYD will supply its product for a project from Grenergy in Chile which has been claimed as the largest energy storage project in the world. Independent power producer (IPP) Grenergy and BYD have signed a strategic agreement for the supply of 1.1GWh of battery energy storage systems (BESS) for the
Philippines'' first hybrid solar-plus-storage plant comes online through Ayala Group energy subsidiary
In October, Energy-Storage.news reported that ACEN will be piloting the use of battery storage in Vietnam, pairing a 15MW/7.5MWh BESS with a 50MWp solar power plant in a project supported with a US$2.96 million
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It is a project with 20 megawatts (MW) of power and 160 megawatts per hour (MWh) of energy storage capacity. This increase, according to Prime Minister Ulisses Correia e Silva, will help achieve the government''s goal of more than 50% of electricity production from renewable energy by 2030 and approaching 100% by 2040.
Spain launches two energy storage programmes with €280 million
Image: MITECO. The government of Spain is launching €280 million (US$310 million) in grants for standalone energy storage projects, thermal energy storage and reversible pumped hydro to go online in 2026. The Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) opened a public consultation into the grant
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During the presentation of the project, Cape Verde''s National Director for Industry, Trade and Energy, Rito Évora, announced that the energy storage centre is
Cabeolica to expand wind and energy storage capacity in
Wind independent power producer (IPP), Cabeolica, has obtained approval from the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Energy of Cape Verde to expand their wind
Greece awards 411MW of battery storage capacity in first tender
August 14, 2023. The RAE regulates the energy sector in Greece. Image: The Regulatory Authority for Energy (RAE) of Greece has chosen the 12 winning projects of a recently-launched tender, with 411MW of battery storage capacity to receive financial aid over a 10-year period. The tender, which was launched earlier this year, will provide grants
A snapshot of Canada''s energy storage market in 2023
Justin Rangooni, executive director of trade association Energy Storage Canada (ESC) takes us through some of the key developments to date. Canada still needs much more storage for net
Wins for solar-plus-storage in tender ''prove energy storage is integral to greener Germany''
German storage system maker Tesvolt said international activities, including integrating batteries with this Australian gold mine''s solar array, now accounts for about 40% of its business, but Germany remains
