East African country, Kenya, has launched its very first Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) to supply uninterrupted renewable power to its modular data center in the nation’s capital, Nairobi.
[pdf] Peru’s high-altitude solar farms are testing vanadium flow batteries that laugh in the face of thin air. Meanwhile, the Majes Project —a pumped hydro storage beast—is storing enough energy to power 500,000 homes. Talk about thinking big!
[pdf] Startup Element Energy installed 53 megawatt-hours of used electric vehicle batteries in West Texas earlier this year, the largest project of its kind so far. (Element Energy) Cleaning up the grid will require installing a lot of batteries to store renewable energy.
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