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Korkia expands into offering ‘powered land’ for data centers in Chile
The Finnish company plans to combine access to land and grid connection capacity with new renewable generation, battery storage, and grid infrastructure. Korkia claims it is already moving forward with these types of projects in Chile, although it has not provided details on their locations, capacity, or investment.
How competitive is BESS for data centers, really?
Volta Foundation’s July 2026 report ‘Where Batteries Can Win in Data Center Applications’ shows the two areas where battery energy storage systems (BESS) are winning, four where it is competing and two areas where it’s losing out to other technologies in the data center market.
Why Fidra Energy is building the UK’s biggest BESS project
One year on from reaching financial close on the 2.9 GWh Thorpe Marsh BESS, CEO Chris Elder tells ESS News why the developer has opted to build 1 GW+ battery energy storage projects, how Fidra Energy has secured National Wealth Fund backing, and where the company’s European expansion plans may take it first.
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Interview with Trina Storage: We expect consolidation in the coming years
In a recent interview with pv magazine Italia, Gabriele Buccini, head of utility storage at Trina Solar, talked about the company's vertical integration and its forecasts for the storage market. “There is enough capacity available to drive prices down in 2024 in an anomalous way,” Buccini said when talking about global battery energy storage production levels.
In Conversation: How cheap can battery storage get?
Rapidly declining battery energy storage prices are on everyone’s lips, but rare are the ones who can say for how long costs can stay on a downward trajectory. pv magazine ESS News sat down with Taipei-based InfoLink Consulting to hear their take on the market developments.
Jul 04, 2024
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Pumped hydro projects declared high priority by NSW state government in Australia
Three pumped hydro projects that would deliver a combined 1,035 MW / 9,480 MWh of dispatchable capacity are among six projects that have been declared critical state significant infrastructure by the New South Wales (NSW) state government in Australia, potentially smoothing the way for their approval.
Western Australia’s capacity tender seeks 2 GWh of energy storage
The ball is rolling on the Australian government’s pending Capacity Investment Scheme Tender 2 focussing on the Western Australian Wholesale Electricity Market and which seeks an indicative target of 500 MW of four-hour equivalent dispatchable capacity, or 2,000 MWh.
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Czech group MTX, Aquila Capital build 370 MW wind, 360 MW solar, 350 MW BESS hybrid project in Spain
The investment in the Mimosa project, located near Baza, a town in the province of Granada in Andalusia, southern Spain, exceeds one billion euros. The consortium has invested five years in the project development, and its completion is slated for 2027.
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