TLT has completed the sale of a 50MW battery storage project in Kintore near Aberdeen to SUSI Storage Development UK on behalf of ILI Energy Storage PLC (ILI), the clean energy development company. The transaction is the fourth battery storage sale TLT has completed for ILI Group in the last year, and follows hot on […]
Rio Tinto to triple Weipa solar capacity and add battery storage to help power operations – EQ Mag Pro
MELBOURNE, Australia : Rio Tinto has approved a new solar farm and battery storage at Weipa in Queensland, in a move that will more than triple the local electricity network’s solar generation capacity and help provide cleaner power to Rio Tinto’s operations. Under the plans, EDL has been contracted to build, own and operate a […]
Govt eyes 14GWh battery storage system in Kutch – EQ Mag Pro
1GWh battery capacity can power 1 million homes for 1 hour The strategic push will make India’s grid-scale programme the largest in the world The Khavda unit in Kutch can generate 30GW clean energy NEW DELHI : India plans to set up around 14 gigawatt-hour (GWh) grid-scale battery storage system at the world’s largest renewable […]
Tesla’s Texas electricity retail operations to lean on battery storage experience
Tesla’s planned launch of a retail electricity offering to existing customers within the ERCOT service area in Texas will lean heavily on battery storage as well as solar for its expertise, assets and routes to market. Newly-created subsidiary Tesla Energy Ventures filed an application in mid-August with the Texas Public Utilities Commission (PUC), for certification […]
‘Battery Storage’ is the Next Big Disruption in India’s Climate Fight – EQ Mag Pro
Navdeep Gupta Sunil Dayal The 2015 Paris agreement was a landmark agreement to combat climate change and to accelerate and intensify the actions and investments needed for a sustainable low carbon future. To reach these ambitious goals, appropriate mobilization and provision of financial resources, a new […]
Tesla Plotting Battery-Storage Entry into Japan’s Power Market
Tesla Inc. is plotting an entry into Japan’s energy sector with plans to provide power companies with large storage batteries and energy management systems that will support the country’s shift to renewable energy, the Nikkei newspaper reported without attribution. Tesla will start by delivering batteries for an energy storage project in Japan’s northern island of […]
BHP Taps TransAlta Renewables to Build Solar Farms And Battery Storage
BHP Group said it is planning to build two solar farms and a battery storage system in partnership with Canada’s TransAlta Renewables at its nickel project site in Western Australia. The global miner said the project will help reduce carbon emissions by 12 percent compared with 2020 levels at its Mt Keith and Leinster operations, […]
NextEra Energy Developing 2.8 GW of US Battery Storage Through 2024
US utility giant NextEra Energy added 1.84GW of renewables and energy storage projects to its backlog in Q2 2021, but its Energy Resources division reported a fiscal loss of US$315 million. Of the 1.84GW NextEra Energy Resources added in the second quarter, roughly 1.45GW was new solar and 105MW was new energy storage. The clean […]
India to Call Bids For 4 GWh of Grid-Scale Battery Storage
Large battery storages can help India’s electricity grids, given the intermittent nature of electricity from clean energy sources such as solar and wind. There is growing traction for India’s playbook for developing a battery storage ecosystem that involves setting up 50-gigawatt hour manufacturing capacity for advance chemistry cell batteries NEW DELHI : In a push […]
Colombia’s First-Ever Battery Storage Tender Won By Canadian Solar
Vertically-integrated solar PV company Canadian Solar has been awarded a 45MW / 45MWh battery storage project by Colombia’s Ministry of Energy and Mines. Rendering of Slate, a solar-plus-storage project which Canadian Solar’s development subsidiary Recurrent Energy is currently working on in King’s County, California. The ministry’s Energy Mining Planning Unit (UPME) launched the tender earlier […]