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ACWA Power and Sumitomo to finance 968 MW of BESS in Uzbekistan The Saudi developer will be able to finance $4.2 billion worth of battery, solar, and wind sites with the sale of 49% of its holding in five big projects.
Max Hall
Oct 03, 2024
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Grid-scale
Texas set for 1.35 GWh of large-scale BESS French oil major TotalEnergies and German-owned renewables developer RWE have announced plans for five large-scale batteries in the US state.
Gwenaelle Deboutte, Max Hall
Oct 03, 2024
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Grid-scale
CIP acquires 1 GWh Arizona battery, BrightNight announces 800 MWh Washington project Two grid-scale standalone battery energy storage system (BESS) announcements in the United States have highlighted the move by utilities to use energy storage to balance their networks and cope with the inexorable advance of renewables.
Max Hall
Sep 25, 2024
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Manufacturing
Northvolt announces 1,600 redundancies in Sweden The European battery maker has made the move as part of a strategic review which will focus on getting its first 16 GWh of production capacity running at its Northvolt Ett site.
Max Hall
Sep 24, 2024
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Supply chain
US announces $3bn for battery manufacturing, recycling Iron-air battery manufacture and numerous recycling plants are among the projects to benefit from the latest round of Department of Energy (DoE) funding.
Max Hall
Sep 23, 2024
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Grid-scale
San Diego refuses call to ban battery storage projects Battery blazes at Otay Mesa and Escondido prompted calls for a temporary halt on new sites but the local authority decided instead to extend a requirement to include details of fire safety systems as part of planning applications.
Max Hall
Sep 20, 2024
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Projects & Applications
Saft to supply 200 MWh battery storage project in New Zealand The TotalEnergies subsidiary will supply 70 of its Intensium Shift+ battery containers as part of a plan to transform the coal- and gas-fired power site to renewables.
Max Hall
Sep 19, 2024
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Industry
Battery companies claim UK utility National Grid skips their sites for gas peaker plants over 90% of time The chief executives of four energy storage companies have published an open letter which claims their battery sites are being skipped up to 90% of the time, in favor of more expensive fossil fuel plants.
Max Hall
Sep 18, 2024
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Grid-scale
GE Vernova lands second large-scale battery contract at Australia’s Supernode site US-based Vernova will install a 250 MW/1 GWh battery storage system in addition to the 250 MW/500 MWh set-up it is already working on. The final site will include a data center and 750 MW of battery rated power with two- to four-hour storage capacity.
Max Hall
Sep 17, 2024

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