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What percentage of power plants are battery energy storage projects?

Battery energy storage projects accounted for 10.9% of the total awarded capacity, followed by 2.6 GW of gas-fired power plants and 1.4 GW of nuclear capacity. About four-fifths of the capacity procured in the auction across 269 capacity market units (CMU) was from existing power assets, the auction results showed.

What's happening with solar & storage projects?

A double-header of large-scale solar and storage project news from Arizona, US, with PPAs between Recurrent Energy and utility APS, and developer Avantus selling a co-located project to D. E. Shaw. The latest Innovation Tender in Germany has concluded, with 32 solar-plus-storage projects totalling 408MW awarded contracts.

How many battery storage projects won a contract?

Battery storage projects won 74 contracts, and most of that will come from newly built projects. Only 60 MW of the 627 MW of awarded capacity will come from existing generating CMU. Of the new build capacity that won contracts, 54%, or 568 MW, came from batteries, up from just 261 MWlast year.

How many GW of power was procured in the National Grid auction?

The National Grid said in a provisional auction document that a total of 5.78 GW were procured. Of the 6.12 GW of capacity in the auction, 94.42% of projects secured agreements for making supplies available at short notice.

How much does a solar farm cost?

The contracts provide an additional premium in €/kWh to winning projects for energy discharged to the market. Prices for the successful bids range from €0.0776/kWh to €0.0878 ct/kWh with an average price of €0.0833/kWh (US$8.75ct/kWh). Both the average price and the maximum value ended up above the previously held solar farm auction in July.

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