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Boralex commissions its first BESS project in North America
Canadian developer commissions 320 MWh project in partnership with Ontario's Walpole Island First Nation community. The Sanjgon BESS is capable of four-hour continuous delivery to the grid at full power. The project uses 89 Tesla Megapack 2XL units.
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Pacifico Energy targets 2.9 GWh of BESS installations in Japan by 2030
Pacifico Energy's 2 MW/10 MWh grid-scale Koganai ESS project in Tokyo was fully self-funded and will participate in Japan's daily wholesale electricity and balancing market. Dhiraj Shangari, CFO, Pacifico Energy told ESS News Japan's market is lucrative and there is a lot of demand for energy but also a lot of power volatility, which Pacifico hopes its BESS will address.
UK: Masdar initates $1.3bn energy storage rollout, Root Power secures almost 1 GW of grid connections
Masdar has just completed its first battery energy storage (BESS) project in the UK following its 2022 acquisition of Arlington Energy. The UK's Root Power has secured grid offer notifications for 942 MW across 13 BESS projects.
Texas BESS: Wärtsilä to supply 500 MWh project; Linea Energy secures financing for 470 MWh facility
Wärtsilä will deploy its Quantum2 system at Peregrine Energy's 250 MW/500 MWh Mallard battery energy storage (BESS) project located northeast of Dallas, Texas. Meanwhile, Linea Energy closed debt financing for its 470 MWh Duffy BESS in Matagorda County.
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Amea Power begins construction on 1 GW/600 MWh solar-plus-storage plant in Egypt
“Given the strategic importance of this renewable energy project for Egypt’s energy system, we initiated construction at the earliest opportunity, advancing delivery even before project finance was finalized,” AMEA Power's Chairman, Hussain Al Nowais, said.
SPIE partners with Tesla on European rollout, including 1.4 GWh Dutch BESS project
SPIE and Tesla have signed a three-year formal agreement to build on their existing battery energy storage system (BESS) project partnership in Europe. The deal “defines the legal and operational conditions” under which SPIE will use Tesla’s Megapack technology at its BESS projects, SPIE told ESS News.
e-Storage to deliver 408 MWh BESS for Vena Energy in South Australia
e-Storage said the Tailem Bend 3 battery energy storage system (BESS), which began construction earlier this month, joins its growing Australian footprint of approximately 2 GWh. The company will deploy nearly 100 of its SolBank 3.0 battery containers.
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