ABSOLAR summarised in Solar em 1 Minuto its agenda for storage: predictability, compensation for generation curtailment and annual battery auctions.
HyperStrong announced it has been included in BloombergNEF's Tier 1 list of energy storage providers for the third quarter of 2026. According to the company, it has delivered more than 60 GWh across more than 400 projects in over 30 countries, backed by 15 years of research and development.
Marcio Takata, CEO of Greener, draws attention to the gap between the international price of batteries and the CAPEX of a BESS installed in Brazil, which includes freight, exchange rate, import taxes, customs clearance, complementary equipment, engineering, installation and commissioning.
HiTHIUM has surpassed 200 GWh in cumulative deliveries of storage systems since the end of 2021, according to Canal Solar. The milestone was announced in Chongqing. The company doubled the volume in just over a year: it had reached 100 GWh in August 2025.
After LRCAP 2026, the MME set an estimated timetable up to 2029. Normative Ordinance 143, of 28 September 2026, provides for capacity reserve auctions in the form of power in the second half of 2027, 2028 and 2029, with batteries cited alongside hydraulic storage, hydroelectric and thermal plants.
Strategic Energy brings together, based on Energía Estratégica, three European storage moves. Portugal will auction 1,050 MVA of grid access, 750 of them for standalone batteries.
CanalEnergia highlights the price caps for the battery auctions of 2 and 4 December, whose tender documents ANEEL approved on 27 October: BRL 1.76 million per MW per year with local content and BRL 1.58 million without that requirement.
On 27 October ANEEL approved Tender Documents No. 05/2026 and No. 06/2026 of LRCAP 2026, with 15-year supply from 1 August 2028; only the first includes local content criteria. After public consultation, the reference investment fell from BRL 9.8 million to BRL 6 million per MW.
Powersafe and Zipp Energia have commissioned a hybrid system at Rivelli Alimentos' breeder farm in Carmo do Cajuru (MG): six Huawei cabinets with 1.29 MWh, a 378 kWp plant, the Cemig D grid and a diesel generator.
At Canal Conecta 2026, a video panel by Canal Solar set out a concern about the draft rules for the battery auction: the seller bears the risk of not receiving revenue, even without controlling collection. A legal dispute or a shortfall of funds in the paying account would fall on the investor.
BNDES has begun financing through the Fundo Clima up to 100% of the eligible items of battery projects that meet routes 2, 3 or 4 of the domestic manufacturing accreditation, according to Canal Solar. These routes require part of the pack manufacturing to take place in Brazil.
ANEEL has registered, through Order 3,960/2026, the first grant application for a closed-loop pumped storage hydropower plant treated as a storage system: UHR Salto Timbé do Sul, by AMUR Ltda., with 5.2 MW planned in Santa Catarina.
Marcelo Baseggio, director of Bold Energy, presented on Canal Conecta VI cases of batteries in commerce and industry: 70 kWh to cap a hotel's demand in Chapecó at 100 kW, 75 kWh of backup at a hotel in Búzios against losses of up to BRL 30,000 per season, and 1.2 MWh under construction at an events…
The World Economic Forum named everything-to-grid energy among the top ten emerging technologies of 2026: cars, buildings and equipment that store energy and return it at peaks.
Solar with batteries has come to be measured by the cost of delivering energy outside sunlight hours as well. According to IRENA figures released by ABSOLAR on 16 October, Brazil would have in 2035 the second lowest cost of firm solar among the markets assessed, USD 41 per MWh, behind China, at USD…
Greener, through its CEO Marcio Takata, announces the Imersão Greener BESS C&I, on 19 and 20 October, in São Paulo. The thesis is that commercial and industrial storage opens room for energy traders, integrators, engineering firms and investors, provided there is a viable solution and a sustainable…
CIIA-PAC/CC Resolution 6, published in the DOU on 16 October, requires domestically manufactured products in the battery systems of the LRCAP 2026 National Storage auction, scheduled for 2 December, proven through BNDES accreditation.
China Huadian has connected to the grid, in Mulei, Xinjiang, a 100 MW, 1,000 MWh compressed CO₂ storage plant, with ten hours of nominal discharge and about 200 GWh a year expected at full operation.
In 2024, commercial and industrial storage mapped by Greener totalled 51 MWh. By June 2026, it was 732 MWh, and the segment's share rose from 7% to 38%, according to a post by Marcio Takata, CEO of Greener, promoting the Imersão Greener BESS C&I on 19 and 20 October in São Paulo.
Markets with a lot of solar swing between a midday surplus and late-afternoon scarcity. In an article this Thursday, economist Daniel Lima starts from the Danish case to describe what he calls energy autophagy: by buying in the trough and selling at the peak, batteries flatten the curve and…
Battery storage in Brazil has reached 1.9 GWh sold, according to a Greener survey. The first quarter of 2026 recorded 504 MWh in orders and 2025 closed at 730 MWh, close to the total of the previous five years.
According to a Greener survey cited in the post, the Brazilian BESS market reached 1.9 GWh sold, with 504 MWh in orders in the first quarter of 2026 alone, against 730 MWh in the whole of 2025. The advance is attributed to the 53% fall in battery prices between 2020 and 2025 and to Law 15,269/2025.
ABSOLAR published a retrospective of Storage Leaders, held on 30 September 2026 in São Paulo, and reports that the economic viability of BESS projects and operational efficiency dominated the panels.
Marcio Takata, CEO of Greener, states that the Brazilian BESS market went from 51 MWh in 2024 to more than 700 MWh in mapped projects in 2026, and points to a conversion rate of between 3% and 5%.
Power sector entities disagree on who pays for battery contracting in the capacity reserve auctions. Consumers and distribution companies argue for keeping the cost borne only by generators; other entities propose a broader split.
Until recently, the obstacle for commercial and industrial storage was price. The post by Marcio Takata, CEO of Greener, shifts the diagnosis to conversion: more than 60,000 consumers already show economic attractiveness in one of the main applications analysed by the company, and even so it takes…
Brazil is starting to contract storage by auction, and the dominant chemistry is lithium. Researchers from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Unicamp presented a flow battery with two concentric cylindrical electrodes and internal electrolyte circulation, with no external pumps or hoses.
A study by ABSAE with Volt Robotics estimates BRL 3.9 billion to BRL 6 billion per year in benefits to the power system from batteries.
The assessment of a commercial BESS usually begins with the electricity bill and ends with the IRR. Marcio Takata, CEO of Greener, argues that the load curve in short intervals says more than twelve bills: a 500 kW peak for fifteen minutes and the same peak for three hours call for the same power…
An article published on 29 September by Daniel Lima treats the Waratah Super Battery, of 850 MW and 1,680 MWh in New South Wales, as a grid asset: it provides a protection scheme that lets existing lines operate closer to their thermal limit and releases transmission capacity without new…
Storage sales had been treated with the same commercial logic as photovoltaic system sales. In episode 194 of Papo Solar, published by Canal Solar on 25 September 2026, Renan Casadei, BESS sales manager at BelEnergy, points to three recurring mistakes: copying a competitor's proposal, sizing only…
In the February announcement, WEG forecast up to 2 GWh per year at the battery energy storage systems factory in Itajaí. In a post by Francisco Edgar, the investment rises to BRL 330 million and planned capacity increases to 4 GWh per year, with commercial operation expected to start in the second…
The Brazilian storage market is entering the phase of formal product conformity. According to Canal Solar, Solis obtained Inmetro registration for three battery configurations in the EverCore line, with capacities of 100 kWh, 120 kWh and 261 kWh in LFP technology, within the conformity assessment…
EUPD Research projects that the European battery storage market will install 57 GWh in 2026, against 32 GWh in 2025, growth of 78% in one year.
Portugal's procedure to allocate grid injection capacity for storage was set for September 14 and was postponed by several weeks after the public consultation.
Until 2026, a battery project in Brazil had no auction of its own to compete in. Now it has: Normative Ordinance 136/GM/MME, of 1 June 2026, created the Capacity Reserve Auctions for storage, with start of operation scheduled for 1 August 2028.
ANEEL authorised, through Order No. 3,602, the start of commercial operation of the Sol de Brotas 7 PV plant, in Uibaí (BA), with 102 generating units and 32.5 MW installed.
Marcio Takata, of Greener, draws attention to an asset that is already installed and dispersed: around 31 GWh of batteries in Germany, of which approximately 23 GWh are spread across 2.6 million residential systems. Coordinated, they could respond to variations between generation and consumption.
Behind-the-meter storage has moved beyond the pilot stage and is now being sold as a bill solution in retail. A greengrocer in Curitiba cut its energy bill by around 80%, from around BRL 30,000 per month to BRL 2,800 to BRL 3,500, after integrating a 100 kW, 215 kWh BESS with photovoltaic…
Canal Solar published an article on Brazil's first storage auction, scheduled for December 2026, with the potential to unlock up to BRL 20 billion in investment, and on what has not yet been defined regarding who will bear the costs of storage and of the ERCAP.
The pumped storage plant is the storage asset with the longest useful life under discussion in the Brazilian power sector, and the country still has no mechanism to contract it.
Until recently, battery announcements in Europe came in tens of MWh. This week's pv magazine edition shows another scale: Scotland approved four projects totalling 1.4 GW, two of them long duration at around 10 GWh, while Zhero and Tesla Energy signed an agreement covering 3 GWh in Italy and the UK…
Canal Solar published promotional material on the M-Block, in video, stating that in off-grid operations any fluctuation can compromise supply and that the equipment brings features to provide greater stability, with emphasis on industrial applications.
Roberto Valer, CTO of Huawei Digital Power Brasil, projected on 9 September 2026 that, of the roughly 300 GW registered for Brazil's first battery auction, only 3 GW to 4 GW will reach the competitive stage, against a government forecast of 2 GW.
Storage has entered Brazilian transmission through the tender route. On 8 September 2026 ANEEL approved Public Consultation No. 032/2026 with the draft tender notice for Transmission Auction No. 01/2027, with an estimated BRL 12.9 billion across 12 lots.
Until now the country had no capacity reserve auction dedicated to batteries. ANEEL Public Hearing No. 005/2026, held on 1 September 2026 in Brasília, brought together around 70 in-person participants and eleven speakers, and kept the calendar for the two auctions, scheduled for 2 and 4 December.
The bill for capacity reserve auctions is apportioned through a specific charge levied on the sector. CanalEnergia published on 28 August 2026 that the allocation of this charge in the battery auction divides market players, with expected litigation linked to the imprecision of Law 15,269 and to…
Canal Solar published on 27 August 2026 a technical article by Geraldo Silveira on the approval of battery storage systems.
Greener announced the close of registration for the LRCAP Baterias and states that the next step is to convert project assumptions into decisions on competitiveness and bankability.
ABSOLAR published the debates from the second day of the Intersolar South America and EES South America conferences, in São Paulo. The 2026 edition arrived in a different situation from previous ones: battery storage now has a dedicated auction, with fixed dates.
Germany has around 31 GWh in batteries, of which approximately 23 GWh are spread across 2.6 million residential systems, according to a post by Marcio Takata, CEO of Greener.
Until now, the poultry farm in Tibagi, Paraná, had had solar generation since 2019 and shut down during outages, which have lasted as long as 72 hours.
US capacity to manufacture modules and storage systems is expected to reach 146 GWh in 2026, above the projected annual demand of 60 GWh for large-scale projects in 2027, according to a U.S. Energy Storage Coalition report cited in the publication.
In 2025, 24% of integrators had already sold solar systems with batteries and a further 46% offered hybrid systems without having closed their first sale, according to the data cited in the publication, which now opens the Pesquisa GD 1S 2026 survey to measure the first half of this year.
The Brazilian battery market has moved from conversation to the project phase. Marcio Takata, CEO of Greener, wrote that the challenge is to turn interest into technically sound and viable projects, starting from the customer's need, which may be demand reduction, operational continuity, better use…
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The approved tender documents put batteries in the competition for capacity. This episode explains how contracting connects to system security, the steps up to operation and the points that still need to be proven before a project becomes an investment.
BRIEF · EP154:12
Storage
A battery can have the right equipment and a wrong connection assumption. In storage, location, charging and delivery have to close the same account.
BRIEF · EP114:49
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The value of storage lies in actual availability; predictable revenue does not replace engineering and risk allocation.
BRIEF · EP103:50
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Statkraft's Sol de Brotas 7 project, in Uibaí, Bahia, was authorized to add a 1.25 MW, 5.016 MWh BESS.
BRIEF · EP064:00
Storage
6,091 projects and 296,807 MW registered do not mean 296 GW of batteries ready to go. They mean Brazil's first storage auction will test who can deliver.
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Brazil is about to take an important step with its first auctions for large-scale battery energy storage.