The UK reached a gigawatt of battery storage deployments in the second quarter of 2020 and the industry has 14.9GW in its development pipeline including 1.8GW of ready-to-build projects and 6.9GW with planning approvals in place. Mollie McCorkindale, an analyst at Solar Media Market Research writes in an exclusive blog for our sister site Solar […]
Puma Energy adds solar, battery storage at stations in Ghana
Multinational oil company Puma Energy said it has installed solar power systems and battery storage units at several of its locations in Ghana. Solar panels with a combined total capacity of 422 kWp were installed at 11 retail service stations and three Puma Energy terminals. At 11 of the 14 sites, the company backed solar […]
RWE Renewables’ first European-based battery storage project has entered full operations in Ireland.
The 8.5MWh battery storage facility will be capable of providing a rapid delivery of electricity into the power grid in order to balance fluctuations resulting from the growing proportion of electricity generated by intermittent renewables. The site is located in Stephenstown, Balbriggan, in County Dublin and is the first of two battery storage facilities that […]
Large-scale solar-plus-storage project commissioned at Mali gold mine
An off-grid hybrid energy system at Fekola, a gold mine in Mali, Africa, has gone online incorporating solar PV, battery storage and the site’s existing fossil fuel generators, project partners Baywa r.e. and Suntrace have said. Malian mines produced 66.5 tonnes of gold in 2020, making it the third biggest producer on the African continent, […]
South African start-up raises $1.4 million in crowd sale of Zimbabwe solar project
Investors were invited to purchase individual solar cells in the project. In exchange, they will earn a rental income in cryptocurrency from the electricity generated. JOHANNESBURG: South African energy start-up Sun Exchange raised $1.4 million in a crowd sale of solar cells of a 1.9 megawatt (MW) solar and battery storage facility at Zimbabwe’s Nhimbe […]
Mytilineos heightens focus on solar in bid to reach 3GW of capacity by 2030
Mytilineos is looking to transfer its global experience of solar and storage project development to help decarbonise the Greek electrical system and hit 3GW of PV capacity by 2030. The industrial group earlier this month acquired 1.48GW of Greek solar parks as part of efforts to expand the company’s new renewables and storage development business […]
France’s biggest battery storage system at 25MW goes into operation
The biggest battery energy storage system (BESS) in mainland France went into operation in late January, and will provide grid-balancing services to national transmission system operator RTE. France-headquartered multinational energy company Total was contracted by RTE for the project, which has 25MWac rated output and 25MWh of storage capacity. It has been built at the […]
Battery storage cheaper than new coal power plants in TN: Analysis finds
A new economic viability analysis on Friday revealed that renewable energy along with battery storage in Tamil Nadu is cost competitive with new coal power plants. The report finds the levelized cost of energy for a hypothetical hybrid, solar, wind and li-ion battery storage system for the state to be Rs 4.97/kWh in 2021, which […]
FlexGen, CATL to add 220 MWh of battery storage in Texas
FlexGen, CATL to add 220 MWh of battery storage in Texas..Read More.. Source : renewablesnow
Niti Aayog invites bids for setting up Advance Chemistry Cell manufacturing facilities under PPP
According to draft model bid document posted on Niti Aayog’s website, the government intends to develop giga-scale advance cell manufacturing for domestic application and promotion of diverse energy sources to ensure overall energy security. New Delhi: Government think tank Niti Aayog has invited bids for setting up Advance Chemistry Cell manufacturing facilities under public private […]
