Ingeteam commissions the first PV plant with batteries in Spain
The 40 MW Arañuelo III PV plant is now up and running. This is the first large-scale PV plant in Spain to incorporate an energy storage system, comprising in this case a 3 MW/9...
Battery pack prices fall to an average of $132/kWh, but rising commodity prices start...
Lithium-ion battery pack prices, which were above $1,200 per kWh in 2010, have fallen 89% in real terms to $132/kWh in 2021. This is a 6% drop from $140/kWh in 2020. Continuing cost reductions...
Europe’s residential battery storage fleet to grow over 400% by 2025
SolarPower Europe has published its annual ‘European Market Outlook for Residential Battery Storage’ report, covering 2021-2025. Analysing the synergy between residential solar and batteries, new figures show that European residential solar & storage soared...
Ingeteam supplies battery inverters to a 20 MW/80 MWh ESS project in California
Ingeteam Inc., a manufacturer of solar and battery inverters based in Milwaukee (Wisconsin), has supplied its battery inverters for the Johanna 1 & 2 energy storage projects in Santa Ana, California. This 20MW /...
Global energy storage market set to hit one TWh by 2030
Energy storage installations (stationary batteries excluding pumped hydro storage) around the world will reach a cumulative 358 GW/1,028 GWh by the end of 2030, more than twenty times larger than the 17 GW/34 GWh...
Battery research group launches technical roadmap in boost to advanced lead battery design and...
The Consortium for Battery Innovation (CBI) has launched its latest Technical Roadmap dedicated to delivering high-performance batteries supporting EU green growth and decarbonisation goals. Combining the latest market analysis with a scientific vision setting out...
Acciona connects Spain’s first renewable storage plant featuring recycled batteries
Acciona has connected Spain’s first renewable storage plant using recycled batteries to the grid, at the company’s experimental photovoltaic park in Tudela (Navarre). The set of four second-life batteries, with a combined capacity of...
Iberdrola installs the first battery in a renewable project in Spain, the Arañuelo PV...
Iberdrola is making progress with innovations in renewables with the objective of optimising energy use and promoting efficient integration of renewable energies in the electricity network. The energy company has installed the first battery...
HEROES, a project that aims to develop an energy storage system for fast electric...
SUSTAINABLE INNOVATIONS and ENSO are the Spanish partners involved in HEROES (acronym of Hybrid EneRgy stOragE Stations), a new project funded under the European Union’s Research and Innovation Programme Horizon 2020, that will last...
Spain and Portugal needs over 40 GW of flexibility to reach 100% renewables at...
The report Atlas of 100% Renewable Energy, recently launched by Wärtsilä, modelling over 145 countries and regions, shows that power systems with high levels of renewables need a significant amount of flexibility, through energy...
