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.
Energy storage ‘significantly underutilised’ in EU despite recent growth and policy support
There is a “healthy pipeline of projects in development” across Europe’s energy storage sector, but the technologies are as yet “significantly underutilised” below their potential.
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.
Italy’s MACSE and the evolution of BESS asset management in Europe
The low prices and strict operational requirements in Italy’s recent MACSE auction for BESS have brought asset management and operational execution into the spotlight.
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.
One year on: EU Batteries Regulation and CE marking impacting energy storage systems
A year since the implementation of the initial steps in EU Batteries Regulation went into effect and the impacts are already being seen, writes Nicholas Bellini of TÜV SÜD.
AI now links technical and commercial realities of BESS asset management
We hear from the co-founder and CEO of optimiser Suena Energy Dr. Lennard Wilkening about the evolution of BESS asset management in Europe, including the impact of artificial intelligence (AI).
‘Europe’s fastest-growing clean energy technology’: 100GW of energy storage installs
Europe is on track to reach 100GW of cumulative energy storage deployments this month, according to LCP Delta and Energy Storage Europe.
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.
