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Ghana plans to procure 200 MW of battery storage
2+ hour, 57+ min ago (326+ words) Ghana is planning to procure 200 MW of battery storage projects via competitive bidding processes, the country's Minister for Energy and Green Transition, John Jinapor, has said. The country's state-owned news agency reports that Jinapor made the announcement while speaking in…...
Balancing market opens to residential battery storage in Great Britain
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (311+ words) Balancing market opens to residential battery storage in Great Britain'ESS News Balancing market opens to residential battery storage in Great Britain Residential batteries can now trade in Great Britain's Balancing Mechanism market, following a rule change announced by system operator…...
New cost-saving copper welding technique for battery cells revealed by Fraunhofer
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (378+ words) German researchers have successfully replaced steel connectors with copper in a welding process for connecting battery cells that uses proven machinery. Scientists at Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) and German manufacturer Smart Battery Solutions have been working together…...
Why BESS insurers are sweating transformers and contractor errors over battery fires
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (767+ words) For underwriters insuring gigawatt-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS), thermal runaway is no longer the only bogeyman. It's the velocity of product development, inexperienced integration, and vulnerabilities in the balance of plant that are keeping the insurance industry on its…...
Vena signs $142M BESS rev share deal with Danish energy trader Australia during Royal visit
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (376+ words) Singapore-headquartered renewables developer'Vena Energy'has signed a $200 million (USD 142 million) agreement with Danish energy trading company InCommodities for the second 204 MW stage of the Bellambi Heights battery project being constructed near the town of Gulgong in New South Wales (NSW), some…...
2D carbon selenide offers route to competitive sodium-ion batteries
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (256+ words) A group of researchers at the'Delft University of Technology'(TU Delft) in the Netherlands has proposed to use'2D carbon selenide (-CSe) as an anode material in sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) in an effort to improve device performance and safety.' "At the…...
Tesla confirmed by US govt as mystery buyer in $4.3 billion LG Energy Solution deal for domestic Megapack 3 production
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (226+ words) The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) has officially confirmed that'Tesla'is the customer behind a landmark'$4.3 billion'supply agreement'with'LG Energy Solution (LGES).'The announcement, made during the Indo-Pacific Energy Security Summit, solidifies a strategic pivot for Tesla as it'moves to'onshore its supply…...
Brazil's Energy Ministry talks minimum storage requirements for new distributed generation
5+ day, 57+ min ago (378+ words) Brazil's Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) is moving toward mandatory battery storage inclusion and thresholds for new distributed generation (DG) connections in a regulatory shift that would fundamentally change how solar and other renewables enter the grid. Speaking before…...
Massive new solar-storage project in Australia for green hydrogen hub: 6 GWh BESS now under application
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (339+ words) A joint venture between French oil giant TotalEnergies and Paris-headquartered renewables producer'Eren Groupe, has submitted plans for one of Australia's largest solar and battery energy storage projects for review under the local Australian environmental process. The $2.8 billion Wak Wak project…...
Samduo launches residential AC-coupled plug-in storage systems
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (368+ words) Chinese energy storage provider Samduo, a unit of Shenzhen-based manufacturer Hubei Yixing Intelligent Equipment, has launched two new battery lines for residential applications at the Solar Solutions International trade show in the Netherlands. The company said the Nex E6000 and Nex…...