Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has awarded a contract for setting up a 100 MW (AC) solar with 40 MW/120 MWh Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) project to be set up at Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh. The project, with one of the largest grid-connected BESS projects in the country, will demonstrate how, by using a large […]
TransAlta Renewables Announces Agreement to Build a Hybrid Solar – Battery Project For BHP Nickel West in Western Australia
Alberta : TransAlta Renewables announced that Southern Cross Energy (“TransAlta Australia”), a subsidiary of TransAlta Corporation and an entity in which the Company owns an indirect economic interest, has agreed to provide renewable solar electricity supported with a battery energy storage system (“BESS”) to the Goldfields-based operations of BHP Nickel West Pty Ltd (“BHP”) through […]
Australian Renewables Developer Maoneng Reveals Details of Proposed 240MW / 480MWh Battery Project
Renewable energy company Maoneng has made public its plans for a 240MWp / 480MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) which it has proposed to build in Victoria, Australia. The standalone BESS would be built in Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, an area subject to fluctuations in demand for power due largely to seasonal tourism. The company said […]
Siemens And Fluence to Build Renewables-Integrating 100MW/200MWh Battery Project in Germany
Siemens has signed a letter of intent for the construction of a turnkey 100MW / 200MWh large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) in Wunsiedel, northern Bavaria, Germany. Groundbreaking ceremony for Siemens Energy’s H2 plant in Wunsiedel, attended by Dr. Markus Söder, Minister-President of Bavaria, took place earlier this month. Siemens Smart Infrastructure, a business unit […]
Utility AGL plans 250MW / 1,000MWh battery project in South Australia
After a series of large-scale battery announcements in Australia from Federal and state governments, utility company AGL has followed up by saying it plans to build a battery system in South Australia with up to 1,000MWh of capacity. The publicly-listed company said in August that it wants 34% of its electricity capacity to come from […]
One-by-one: Saft supplying Nordic region’s next big battery project
Tuuliwatti’s wind farm site in Finland where the Saft battery energy storage system (BESS) will be connected. Image: Saft / TuuliWatti. Almost exactly a year since the Nordic region’s ‘largest’ battery energy storage system to date was announced, Saft has said that the next system to take that crown will be a project the company […]
