Renewable developer and IPP TagEnergy will soon start construction on the largest BESS project in France, a 240MW/480MWh project with Tesla providing BESS and EPC services.
A roundup from a very busy fortnight of UK BESS news, with major project announcements from Field, Cero Generation, Fidra Energy, Sungrow, Green Nation and Low Carbon, as well as ESB and SSE news items from neighbouring Ireland.
BESS owner-operator BW ESS and developer ACL Energy have expanded their development pipeline in Italy to 2.9GW.
Avadis Investment Foundation is buying a BESS project in Switzerland which could be the country’s largest when it is scheduled to come online in 2027.
The government of Cyprus has confirmed financial support will be made available for renewable energy projects paired with energy storage.
Steag subsidiary Iqony and Fluence will deploy a 50MW/200MWh BESS project in Germany, part of which will be contracted under a PPA with train network operator Deutsche Bahn.
Developer Rolwind has won a favourable environmental impact assessment (EIA) result for a 200MW/800MWh BESS in Spain, the first standalone one to do so and the largest in the country, it claimed.
CATL is the world’s largest lithium-ion manufacturer, and a major player in BESS too, and made headlines earlier this year when it claimed five years of ‘zero degradation’ for its new grid-scale product Tener.
A double header of news from Sweden, with BESS developer-operator Ingrid Capacity launching what it claimed is the largest project in the Nordics, and optimiser Flower completing a Series A.
A roundup of news from the UK BESS market, with developers ILI, Aukera, and Apatura having projects achieve planning permission, along with IPP Lightsource bp and a data centre in Wales, from the pages of our sister site Solar Power Portal.
