Solar Energy Storage and Battery News

Wartsila to supply 25MW Dutch battery
The Finnish business will deliver the energy storage system for GIGA Storage's Buffalo project in Lelystad
Dec 21, 2021 // Storage, Europe, Netherlands, Wartsila, Giga Storage, Maarten Quist, Pekka Tolonen
Gore Street storage fund value tops ₤ 285m.
Portfolio stood at 516.5 MW as of 30 September, up from 440MW at the end of March.
Dec 21, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, UK, Europe, Alex O'Cinneide, Gore Street Energy Storage Fund
TotalEnergies to establish 160MW New Caledonia PV
Projects for mining as well as metallurgy consortium will certainly include 340MWh of storage
Dec 20, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, caledonia, PV Power Plant, TotalEnergies
Norwegian Mfr FREYR Bags Off-take Offer to Provide 31GWh Battery Cells in 5 Yrs
Norwegian clean power storage space designer FREYR Battery has implemented its inaugural off-take arrangement for at the very least 31 GWh of low-carbon battery cells with an undisclosed producer and also company of energy storage systems.
Dec 20, 2021 // Storage, Europe, BESS, Norway, Freyr battery, Battery Cells, Tom Jensen
Platte River problems RFP for 250MW of solar PV, motivates battery storage as part of projects
Platte River Power Authority has actually issued an ask for proposals (RFP) to acquire as much as 250MW of new solar PV generating capacity that might start producing energy by 2025.
Dec 20, 2021 // Storage, USA, Colorado, BESS, North America, Platte River, not-for-profit
Battery Pack Prices Be Up To an Average of $132/kWh, Yet Rising Commodity Prices Beginning to Bite
Lithium-ion battery pack prices, which were above $1,200 per kilowatt-hour in 2010, have fallen 89% in genuine terms to $132/kWh in 2021 [1] This is a 6% decline from $140/kWh in 2020.
Dec 20, 2021 // Storage, UK, China, Hong Kong, Europe, Asia, London, lithium-ion battery, Kwasi Ampofo, James Frith
Greenspot intends 500 MW/1,000 MWh battery at former coal-fired nuclear power plant in Australia
New South Wales-based development business Greenspot has actually lodged a planning application for a substantial 500 MW/1,000 MWh battery power storage space system to be built at the site of the shuttered coal-fired Wallerawang Power Station near Lithgow in the Central Tablelands.
Dec 17, 2021 // Storage, Australia, Oceania, Greenspot, Brett Hawkins
Galp, Northvolt to build lithium plant in Portugal
Portuguese utility Galp Energia and also Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt stated Tuesday that they were joining forces to integrate in Portugal one of Europe's very first lithium conversion plants at a price of 700 million euros ($790 million).
Dec 17, 2021 // Storage, NORTHVOLT, Portugal, Galp, Europe, lithium plant
NTU Singapore scientists create biodegradable printed paper batteries
Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have actually established paper-thin biodegradable zinc batteries that might someday end up being an ecologically lasting alternative for powering flexible and also wearable electronic systems.
Dec 17, 2021 // Technology, Storage, Asia, Singapore, NTU, zinc batteries, Fan Hongjin
Invinity commemorates energisation of UK's biggest flow battery
A 5MWh flow battery system set up as part of the Energy Superhub Oxford has been energised by Invinity Energy Systems alongside EDF-owned Pivot Power.
Dec 17, 2021 // Storage, UK, Europe, Pivot Power, Invinity, Vanadium Flow, Flow Batteries
NTR protects ten-year capability settlements in Ireland for 22MW of battery storage
NTR battery storage projects totaling 22MW have secured ten-year contracts for the supply of grid capacity to the Irish grid system.
Dec 16, 2021 // Storage, Ireland, Europe, NTR
Emergent Solar Energy includes 65-kW solar microgrid to Indiana farm
A recently finished solar microgrid system near Greensburg, Indiana, is expected to produce sufficient clean power to offset almost 4,000 tons of co2 over its life time.
Dec 16, 2021 // Plants, Storage, Grids, USA, North America, microgrid, solar farm, Emergent Solar Energy, Jeremy Lipinski
FRV strategies 336-MW solar PV project with BESS in Chile
Spain-based programmer Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) has actually proposed to construct a 336-MW (AC) solar farm in the Chilean region of Tarapaca, according to its filing for an environmental evaluation with the local authorities.
Dec 15, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Spain, PV project, Chile, South america, Europe, BESS, frv
MPC Energy Solutions Joins Leclanché For Battery Project In Caribbean
When finished, the solar+storage project in St. Kitts as well as Nevis will cover a 3rd of the island's power requirements. Groundbreaking for the project took place in December 2020, and also it needs to prepare following year in 2022.
Dec 15, 2021 // Storage, Leclanché, Anil Srivastava, Caribbean, Martin Vogt, MPC Energy, battery major, island solar
US programmer Geenex Solar bags financing to advance PV as well as energy storage pipe
Utility-scale solar programmer Geenex Solar has secured additional financing that will certainly allow it to progress a pipeline of more than 8GW of PV and energy storage space projects in the United States Southeast and Midwest.
Dec 15, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, PJM, North America, geenex solar, EnergyStorageUS, New Energy Capital