Lakshadweep gets region’s first on-grid solar project with battery storage

Solar Panels at Kavaratti Islands, Lakshadweep

India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi on Wednesday (January 3) inaugurated Lakshadweep's first on-grid solar project with a battery energy storage system enabling the Union Territo...

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Volts UAE, Schneider Electric ink agreement to set up giga-industrial BESS facility in Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi-based smart energy storage solutions provider, Volts UAE Ltd (Volts) and global leader in energy management and industrial automation, Scheider Electric have si...

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Honeywell India to focus on battery storage, GH2, open to acquisitions in energy transition says CEO

Honeywell is open to acquisitions in India's energy transition technology sector, its president for India operations, Ashish Modi, told an interview. The US company has recently re...

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Australia's New South Wales awards 350 MW solar, 4,000 MWh storage capacity

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New South Wales in Australia has awarded long-term energy service agreements to two renewable energy projects and three energy storage projects as part of the government's Electric...

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US-India Energy Storage Task Force launched: Aims to boost energy storage adoption

India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA) on Wednesday (Dec. 13) held a launch meeting of the US-India Energy Storage Taskforce (ESTF) to elevate meaningful dialogue and advance the dev...

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World's largest solar + battery project comes online in South Africa

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The ~$1 billion Kenhardt project – which outperformed fossil fuels in a competitive bid – has installed solar capacity of 540 MW and a battery storage capacity of 225 MW/ 1,140 MWh...

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US utility disconnects CATL batteries citing security concerns, sparking row

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An American company has disconnected large-scale CATL batteries attached to a US military base after politicians raised security concerns, in turn sparking angry reactions from the...

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Canada's e-STORAGE to supply 226 MWh batteries to Engie’s Scotland BESS projects

Colin Parkin, President of e-STORAGE (left) and Aidan Connolly, Head of Engie Battery Storage UK. Image: PR Newswire

e-STORAGE, a company that specializes in design, manufacturing, and integration of battery energy storage systems (BESS) for utility-scale applications, will deliver 226 MWh DC of ...

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Honeywell provides 124 MWh BESS for 140 MW solar project in US Virgin Islands

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US engineering-and-technology conglomerate Honeywell announced it will provide developer VIElectron its first instalment of battery energy storage solutions (BESS) for six solar pa...

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Australian state starts work on A$1 billion 600 MW BESS project in Melbourne

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The Australian state of Victoria has announced its first investment through the State Electricity Commission (SEC) to help build one of the world's biggest battery projects, in par...

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Tata AutoComp delivers first set of BESS to Tata Power

India's leading electric utility, Tata Power received the first set of battery energy storage system (BESS) from Tata AutoComp for its energy storage park in Chhattisgarh. The BESS...

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Daily Shorts: US renewable projects run into 3-year transformer wait, VW promises cheap EV, and more

America's power sector is grappling with a transformer shortage. US renewable energy project developers who are setting up grid-scale RE and energy storage systems say critical com...

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CATL, Quinbrook sign pact for deploying 10GWh+ of stationary energy storage

Officials of CATL and Quinbrook sign the Global Framework Agreement.

Battery giant, Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd (CATL) has signed a Global Framework Agreement with renewable energy developer, Quinbrook to deploy more than 10 GWh of its ...

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SSE Renewables gets green light for 320 MW BESS, one of UK’s biggest battery projects

SSE Renewables' Monk Fryton battery will be located next to the UK National Grid's Monk Fryton station. (Image for Representational Purpose) Image: SSE Renewables

SSE Renewables, the green arm of energy developer SSE, has received the green signal to develop one of UK's largest battery energy storage systems (BESS) projects. The company said...

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Strategic Partnership: Powin and Hitachi Energy to expand energy storage market presence

Leading energy storage solutions provider in North America, Powin LLC (Powin) has forged a strategic partnership with global technology major, Hitachi Energy to expand its footprin...

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Indian Cabinet eyes LCoS of ₹5.50-6.60 per kWh with viability gap funding for BESS

India has approved a scheme for Viability Gap Funding (VGF) for development of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) in an attempt to reduce the cost of energy storage for pow...

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Eos Energy secures $398.6M conditional loan from U.S. DOE’s Loan Program Office

Eos Energy Enterprises (Eos) on Thursday said it has secured a conditional commitment for a loan up to $398.6 million from the U.S. Department of Energy's (US DOE) Loan Program Off...

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Auto-electrical components manufacturer, Lucas TVS eyes li-ion battery manufacturing

Joining the growing list of companies venturing into battery cell manufacturing in India, motor vehicle manufacturing company, Lucas TVS on Saturday (August 26) announced it will b...

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JLR’s used EV batteries to power one of the largest energy storage systems in the UK

With its ambition to adopt circular economy principles, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has announced it will use second-life Jaguar I-PACE batteries to develop one of the largest ene...

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Acer expands into energy storage biz; picks up 11% stake in C-Life Technologies

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Multinational hardware and electronics company, Acer Inc on Thursday (August 3) announced that its Board of Directors have given approval for the investment in C-Lif...

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Queensland’s grid-scale battery ‘Big Bessie’ goes live

Genex Power's (Genex) Bouldercombe Battery Project has come online outside Rockhampton in Queensland, Australia. With a capacity of 50MW and 100MWh of storage, the Boulde...

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China’s Hithium Energy Storage secures US $622 million in funding

Leading manufacturer of energy storage products, Hithium Energy Storage Technologies Co. (Hithium) has closed Series C funding round of over RMB 4.5 billion ($622 million) to advan...

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Aquila eyes battery storage business in Japan, plans bigger solar footprint

German investor Aquila Capital is looking to expand its solar footprint in Japan and add a battery storage business in the Land of the Rising Sun. "We started with the first acquis...

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Form Energy to deploy 15MW/1500MWh iron air battery systems in Georgia

Iron-air battery system manufacturer, Form Energy Inc. (Form Energy) on Monday announced that it will deploy a 15MW/1500 MWh iron-air battery system under a definitive agreement wi...

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India planning ₹3,760 crore incentives for 4,000 MWh capacity BESS projects

Authorities in India have tendered energy storage projects totaling as much as 5 GWh. Image: Tesla

India will offer ₹3,760 crore in incentives to companies for setting up battery storage projects of total 4,000 megawatt hours (MWh) capacity, Reuters reports, quoting unidentified...

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UK Infrastructure Bank commits £62.5 million to boost battery storage capacity across the UK

The UK Infrastructure Bank on Tuesday announced that it has committed £62.5 million to support the development of battery storage capacity in the UK.  With the Bank's first de...

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TotalEnergies launches 25MW/75MWh battery farm in Belgium

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French energy major, TotalEnergies on Monday launched a battery farm at its Antwerp refinery in Belgium. The 25 MW/75 MWh capacity energy storage project is the largest batter...

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JSW Renew Energy Five wins SECI's 1 GWh standalone BESS tender

JSW Renew Energy Five Ltd., a special purpose vehicle of JSW Energy, on Friday (Aug. 26) won the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) auction to set up a&nb...

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Vistra restarts Phase I and Phase II of Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility

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After facing two shut-downs in September 2021 and February 2022, Vistra Corp's (Vistra) Moss Landing Energy Storage facility in California is back online.  Vist...

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Connected Energy secures £15 million from five new investors

Connected Energy Ltd (Connected Energy), an advanced energy storage solution provider that uses second-life electric vehicle batteries has secured £15 million from five new investo...

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