Solar Energy Storage and Battery News

The partnership is for R&D and pilot production of aluminium plates for Aluminium-Air batteries, and recycling of aluminium, after usage in these batteries. The aluminium-air batteries are expected to make EV adoption more convenient, and accelerate the transition to zero emission mobility.

African power business Ncondezi Energy has actually launched an expediency research for a hybrid solar-storage project set aside for Mozambique.

Programmers of 2 large-scale battery projects in Massachusetts have appeared prior to the public at hearings hosted by the state's Energy Facilities Siting Board (EFSB).

A Puerto Rico-based subsidiary of Convergent Power + Power has actually signed a power purchase and also operating contract with the regional electrical utility in connection with a 100-MW solar-plus-storage project in the south-central area of the island.

State-owned Irish electrical utility ESB has actually opened a 19MW/38MWh battery power storage system (BESS) in Aghada, County Cork, given by system integrator Fluence.

SF Grid Parity Srl, a device of Italian engineering company Solarfields Group, has formed a joint venture (JV) with Innovo Group Srl to create a pipeline of greater than 300 solar PV schemes as well as at least two power storage projects in Italy.

Aghada is just one of a number of to be established in partnership with Fluence, Powercomm Group and Kirby Group

Wartsila, a Finland-based technology firm, has signed an agreement with Clearway Energy Group. Wartsila will certainly provide energy storage devices amounting to a 500-megawatt (MWac)/ 2-gigawatt hour (GWh) portfolio.

A subsidiary of Canadian renewable resource investor Brookfield Renewable has actually suggested a 161MW/644MWh battery storage system to complete in an Ontario grid operator Request for Proposals (RfP).

Private equity firm Syncarpha Capital has entered a partnership to co-develop solar as well as solar-plus-storage projects in New England, US, with Rosemawr Sustainable Infrastructure Management.

Norwegian state-owned energy company Equinor will certainly get East Point Energy, a US-based programmer of grid-scale battery energy storage projects.

Fluence Energy Inc (NASDAQ: FLNC) said on Tuesday it will provide a 11.7-MW/ 34-MWh battery energy storage space system to German decentralised energy company Muench Energie to be collocated with a 34-MW solar park in Merseburg, eastern Germany.

Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has actually won a contract for distinction (CfD) for a 350-MW solar-plus-battery storage space project in Kent, South East England, thus grabbing the largest solar award in the UK federal government's fourth allotment round.

Solar developer Clearway Energy will certainly release 500MW/2,000 MWh of battery energy storage space systems (BESS) from innovation firm Wärtsilä at five PV plants in the US.

Grid operators in the Netherlands are trialling the capacity of large battery storage to soothe bottlenecks in the grid.