Energy storage news - June 11th, 2021
This week’s TOP 5 features news about a call for interested renewable and storage project developers in Australia, the award of several BESS projects to Hitachi ABB in the Philippines, the commissioning of two 20 MW battery units by Fluence in the same country, the confirmation of ambitious energy storage deployment plans in Poland by PGE and the opening of a World Bank tender for MW-scale battery systems in the Maldives.
- The government of New South Wales is opening a Registration of Interest procedure for a second Renewable Energy Zone.
- Hitachi ABB has been contracted by one of the largest Filipino energy producer SMC to deploy 3 large BESS projects.
- Also in the Philippines, Fluence commissioned two 20 MW / 20 MWh BESS units, the first projects of a large contracted pipeline which total capacity reaches 470 MW.
- Polish utility PGE has confirmed the massive investment in the clean energy transition of the Belchatow region, which should include up to 300 MW of new energy storage capacity.
- The World Bank is supporting the procurement of up to 40 MW of battery systems to be installed on various Maldives islands.