The cabinet approved the first state subsidy scheme for energy storage systems at existing renewable energy parks and net billing installations, the energy ministry announced Thursday..
[pdf] China Electric Equipment Group has published the results of its 2025 centralized procurement for energy storage cells, with almost the entire 7,248 MWh tender awarded to 314 Ah products. The tender was divided into 10 packages, the tender covered cell capacities of 50 Ah, 100 Ah, 280 Ah, and 314 Ah.
[pdf] Iran has expanded its renewables capacity by opening 250 megawatts (MW) of new solar power plants. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian used a video link to open the solar plants on Saturday as he ordered the start of works on building another 450 MW of new plants across the country.
[pdf] Recently, PowerChina and Shanghai Giant Energy Technology Co., Ltd. formally signed the "100MW Advanced Compressed Air Energy Storage EPC General Contract Contract", and officially won the bid for the world's first air compressed energy storage project.
[pdf] Neom's utility subsidiary, Enowa, is expected to issue the request for proposals (RFP) for a contract to develop and operate the first phase of Neom's pumped hydropower storage (PHS) network in the fourth quarter of 2024.
[pdf] This new World Bank project will finance the necessary grid investment and Botswana’s first 50MW utility-scale battery energy storage system to enable the first wave of renewable energy generation to be smoothly integrated and managed in the grid.
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