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1 week ago | 
ess-news.com | Max Hall |Pilar Molina |Marija Maisch |Anne Fischer
Large-scale, long-duration energy storage (LDES) facilities such as pumped hydro sites will be critical to support the ideal amount of solar generation capacity in Spain, as calculated by Madrid-based campaign group Ecologists in Action. The environmental group has calculated the volume of clean energy generation capacity that would be required for a 100% renewables grid by 2030, using various scenarios.
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3 weeks ago | 
ess-news.com | Max Hall |Pilar Molina |Marija Maisch |Patrick Jowett
MITECO’s consultation exercise, which is open until April 11, will consider, among other topics, how to address regulation to drive energy storage on the nation’s islands, which storage technology options are most appropriate, and whether economic or administrative barriers are holding up storage deployment. The exercise will ask how island energy storage should be developed and which management model would be best for current electricity production and dispatch procedures.
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3 weeks ago | 
ess-news.com | Max Hall |Pilar Molina |Patrick Jowett |Marija Maisch
APPA’s latest monthly report logged 20 GW of energy storage-related grid demand-access requests in Spain. The association’s latest figures indicated more than 112 GW of permitted renewable energy sites in Spain in February. Another 54.5 GW requested permits. The maximum power that renewables could inject into the grid in February stood at 142 GW.
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3 weeks ago | 
ess-news.com | Matthew Lynas |Marija Maisch |Marian Willuhn |Pilar Molina
UK developer ILI Group has put five developed BESS projects up for sale, with a total power output of 350 MW. All five projects marketed by the group are in Scotland, and ILI Group CEO Mark Wilson told ESS News that each is “Gate 2 ready” – meaning they meet the National Electricity System Operator’s (NESO) criteria to apply for an accelerated grid connection, as part of NESO’s ongoing work to rationalize the connections queue.
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3 weeks ago | 
ess-news.com | Max Hall |Pilar Molina |Marija Maisch |Marian Willuhn
PV trade body SolarPower Europe is celebrating its 40th anniversary with the tagline SolarPower Europe: solar, storage, and flexibility, and has announced plans for a Battery Storage Europe platform to highlight case studies and regulatory best practice. The platform will also strengthen SolarPower Europe’s storage policy advocacy work, the association said.
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4 weeks ago | 
ess-news.com | Max Hall |Vincent Shaw |Marija Maisch |Pilar Molina
Chinese battery energy storage maker and system integrator Hithium has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The company, headquartered in Xiamen, plans a main board listing with Huatai International, CITIC Securities, ABC International, and BOC International acting as joint sponsors. Hithium’s IPO prospectus states the company has rapidly emerged as a major global player in energy storage since its foundation, in 2019.
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4 weeks ago | 
ess-news.com | Marija Maisch |Marija has years |Pilar Molina |David Carroll
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), through its Fund CI V, has entered a new partnership with Milan-headquartered developer GC Storage Services (GCSS) for a 2.3 GW pipeline of large-scale, standalone battery energy storage projects in Italy. The projects are spread across northern and southern Italy, with the first expected to reach ready-to-build stage later this year.
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1 month ago | 
ess-news.com | Max Hall |Pilar Molina |Marija Maisch |Emiliano Bellini
French multinational Segula Technologies has unveiled the Remora Stack, a sustainable renewable energy storage solution for industry, residential eco-districts, shopping centers, power plants, and public infrastructure. The Remora Stack is a standard, 12 m-container installed system which its manufacturer says has a process efficiency of 70%.
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1 month ago | 
ess-news.com | Max Hall |Pilar Molina |Emiliano Bellini |Marija Maisch
Two solar-plus-storage projects are among five planned renewable energy sites whose details have been published for public consultation on the Portuguese Environment Agency’s Participa portal. Lisbon-based Endesa subsidiary Newcon40 Unipessoal Lda is developing the Sol de Évora Photovoltaic Solar Plant which would include a 240.72 MW/481.44 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS).
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1 month ago | 
ess-news.com | Max Hall |Pilar Molina |Marija Maisch |Vincent Shaw
At a European Union Energy Council meeting on Monday in Brussels, energy ministers discussed the bloc’s energy security and affordability challenge and accepted locally-sourced renewables offer energy security. While accepting the need to secure winter gas supplies, reducing Europe’s dependence on fossil fuels emerged as a priority as ministers discussed the bloc’s Affordable Energy Action Plan and reviewed its energy security framework.
