Brazil publishes rules for its first national battery storage auction
Brazil’s Ministry of Mines and Energy has published guidelines for the country’s first structured battery energy storage auction. The measure is designed to contract reserve capacity from new electrochemical battery systems and improve the reliability of the national interconnected grid.
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