Italian battery storage market pipeline soars, developers flock from around Europe
The utility-scale battery storage market in Italy is drawing huge interest and development activity, writes Solar Media Market Research analyst Josh Cornes.
250MWh ‘Sand Battery’ to start construction in Finland, for both heating and ancillary services
Technology provider Polar Night Energy and utility Lahti Energia have partnered for a large-scale project using Polar’s ‘Sand Battery’ technology for the latter’s district heating network in Vääksy, Finland.
Germany BESS ‘firsts’: Integrated software, multi-party optimisation, privileged permitting
A week of claimed first-of-their-kind advances in Germany’s BESS market, including the combination of monitoring, diagnostics and energy trading on one platform, an optimisation deal allowing multiple companies to trade one asset, and a law change accelerating permitting.
European BESS M&A and financings totalling over 1GW
In a major week for European BESS deal-making, project acquisition and financing deals have been done in the Poland, Germany, Finland, the UK and Romania for grid-scale projects totalling well over 1GW of capacity.
LEAG enlists HyperStrong for 1.6GWh Germany BESS
Utility and power firm LEAG has partnered with Chinese system integrator HyperStrong for a 400MW/1,600MWh BESS in Saxony, Germany.
Statera secures debt finance for 1.36GWh UK BESS
BESS and flexible generation provider Statera Energy has secured £235 million (US$309 million) in debt financing for its 680MW/1,360MWh Carrington BESS project in Manchester, UK.
Greece: PPC awards Trina Storage with 200MWh Western Macedonia BESS project contract
State-backed power firm PPC Renewables has launched construction on its a large-scale BESS in Greece, for which Trina Storage will supply the energy storage technology.
China leads 29% October global BESS deployments increase
Nearly 70% of the 4.5GW/12.7GWh of grid-scale BESS that came online across the globe last month was in China.
Finland: IPPs order BESS from Merus and Sungrow as market shifts to 2-hour systems
Two Finland BESS project announcements, with Exilion ordering grid-forming energy storage technology from Merus Power and Nala Renewables ordering units from Sungrow for 2-hour systems.
Germany: LEAG builds 1GW/4GWh largest BESS project in Europe, Fluence to supply tech
The low-carbon subsidiary of German energy company LEAG is constructing Europe’s largest single-site battery storage project, in partnership with Fluence.
