The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has closed a $489.4 million loan with Dawn Puerto Rico, a subsidiary of Pattern Energy, to fund 220 MW of battery energy storage systems in Puerto Rico. The facility will be located in Arecibo…
There is still uncertainty surrounding Brazil’s battery capacity auction in December, despite strong investor interest which resulted in a record of registered projects. The director general of Brazilian electricity regulator Aneel, Sandoval Feitosa, this week stood against a change in…
Growatt has launched MINA, a single-phase all-in-one residential energy storage system combining a hybrid inverter, modular battery storage, backup power and intelligent energy management. The company is targeting rooftop solar markets in Europe and Australia, where time-of-use tariffs, lower solar…
Lithium-ion technology company Electrovaya has launched the ElvaPulse 1500, a high-power stationary battery energy storage system designed for data centers, artificial intelligence infrastructure, and mission-critical power applications. The launch marks the debut product under Electrovaya’s new ElvaPulse stationary storage portfolio, engineered specifically to handle high-surge, rapid-discharge power requirements…
Swedish renewable energy developer OX2 has acquired two standalone BESS projects, each rated at 100 MW/400 MWh, from Hanwha Energy Europe. The projects will be built in Lecce province in Italy’s southern Puglia region. Construction is scheduled to begin in…
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has tightened security requirements for electronic equipment used in energy infrastructure by adding foreign-made power inverters to its Covered List, preventing certification of new models for the US market that do not meet new…
Base Power has announced the launch of Base Core. a new home battery manufactured by the company in its Austin, Texas factory. The battery comes in two configurations, offering either 39.2 or 78.4 kWh of energy storage to the company’s…
CGDG’s Qinghai branch broke ground Aug. 1 on the flywheel installation in Golmud, in the Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan autonomous prefecture, in partnership with nine other organizations including the China Electric Power Research Institute and Tsinghua University. Qinghai provincial authorities…
Battery diagnostics company Volytica Diagnostics is urging the energy storage industry to shift its focus from adding more fire protection hardware to making better use of operational battery data to detect faults before they become safety incidents. The company’s co-founder…
ContourGlobal has started construction of Los Maitenes, a hybrid solar and battery energy storage project in Chile’s O’Higgins region. The project will combine a 131 MWp solar plant with a 90 MW/360 MWh BESS, providing four hours of storage duration.…