The U.S. Government, through USAID, is funding the project with $85 million as part of over $300 million in assistance announced by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken during his visit to Chisinau in May 2024 to strengthen Moldova’s energy security.
[pdf] The new 40 MW / 80 MWh system, installed at the Dunamenti gas power plant near Budapest, is the biggest of its kind in the country and part of a broader European push to shore up renewable power with large-scale battery backup.
[pdf] US-based Pomega Energy Storage Technologies, a company specializing in lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery production, has secured a contract to install a 62-megawatt (MW) / 104-megawatt-hour (MWh) battery energy storage system (BESS) at the Oslomej 80-megawatt-peak (MWp) solar power plant in North Macedonia.
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