Four building and engineering firms secure contracts across three multimillion-pound BESS schemes

Four engineering and building firms have been appointed to support the roll-out of three new multimillion-pound battery energy storage system (BESS) facilities being built...

Wood Mackenzie: four-hour battery storage now beats gas peaking on cost globally

Wood Mackenzie’s latest global report on levelised cost of electricity (LCOE) shows that advancing technologies and market dynamics continue to drive divergent prices, with...

Centrica Energy, Covenergo and Delta Capacity sign a partial Tolling agreement for AKKU One...

Centrica Energy, Covenergo and Delta Capacity have signed a partial tolling agreement for AKKU One, a 125MW/300 MWh standalone battery energy storage system (BESS)...

Wärtsilä and RCT Solutions launch Valo, a new energy storage integrator with 20GWh on...

Technology group Wärtsilä and RCT Solutions has launched Valo, a global battery energy storage system integrator designed to help customers navigate the growing complexity...

Greenvolt and Statkraft sign agreement for the management of 400MW of battery storage in...

Statkraft, Europe’s largest producer of renewable energy and a leading PPA provider in Europe, and Greenvolt Power, a global utility-scale developer of onshore wind, solar and...

Greenvolt begins construction of one of Europe’s largest battery energy storage projects

Greenvolt Group, through Greenvolt Power, its utility-scale renewable energy business, has started construction of the 600MW/2.4GWh Siedlce battery energy storage system (BESS) in Poland....

Multi-megawatt-hour commercial order to supply lithium-free storage

EnerVenue has signed its first multi-megawatt-hour commercial order. Twenty-six Energy Prism containerised storage units, with a combined capacity of 11 MWh, will be installed...

Why flexibility will break through Europe’s gridlock

Alan Dunne, managing director at Aggreko UK and Ireland, explains the roles of flexibility and digitalisation in breaking through Europe’s utilities gridlock. Europe is inching...

E.ON and Allume unlocking the triple benefits of solar, battery and flexibility for social...

Millions of people are currently ‘locked out’ of the benefits of generating and storing their own power because they live in flats or social...

Battery storage moves up the corporate finance agenda as grid costs rise

The Energyst and Jutton Energy will host a webinar on 30 September exploring how commercial businesses can use battery energy storage to reduce exposure...

Eelpower Energy acquires Silkstead battery storage project near Winchester

Eelpower Energy, the UK grid-scale battery storage platform backed by Equitix, Aware Super and the National Wealth Fund, has completed its fifth asset acquisition:...

EDF and Trinasolar ISBU sign two long term battery optimisation agreements

EDF has signed two battery optimisation agreements with Trinasolar International Solution Business Unit (ISBU), covering a portfolio of new grid-scale battery energy storage projects...

Microsoft showcases GridBeyond’s use of Azure AI for energy optimisation

Microsoft has published a new case study showcasing how global intelligent energy technology company GridBeyond is using Microsoft Azure and Azure AI to help...

The UK doesn’t need more home energy technology – it needs better integration

As the UK prepares for the Future Homes Standard, low-carbon technologies are becoming increasingly central to how we heat and power our homes. Solar,...

Greenvolt secures financing package from UniCredit for BESS projects in Poland

Greenvolt Group has secured a financing package from UniCredit comprising €153 million in bridge facilities and a €65 million guarantee facility. The agreement will...

Axpo signs its first public-sector vPPA in Belgium with veb energy agency

Axpo has won a public tender from Flemish energy agency veb (Vlaams Energiebedrijf) to conclude its first joint virtual Power Purchase Agreement (vPPA) in...

Hybrid solution to contribute to energy efficiency

WEG has supplied a battery energy storage system (BESS) with 4MW of power and 8MWh of capacity to Finland’s Callio solar park, one of...

COMAX France quadruples the size of its BESS portfolio

COMAX France, part of Swiss-based energy company MET Group, has completed a 57MW/114MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) portfolio across 10 sites connected to...

iON+ and ACCURE partner to simplify BESS data access for owners and operators

iON+, a data and asset performance management solution developed by leading independent power producer Conrad Energy, and ACCURE Battery Intelligence, one of the world’s...

GridBeyond launches commercial optimisation of 29.7MW battery portfolio in ERCOT new co-optimised market

AI-driven optimisation, forecasting and Qualified Scheduling Entity services maximise battery revenues for SmartestEnergy's PPA battery portfolio in South Texas, under ERCOT's new RTC+B market. GridBeyond,...