Although last year saw a dip in installations and projects submitted for planning, the BESS market in the UK continues to steam ahead with over 8GWh online and nearly 20GWh being built.
Developers Fidra Energy and Innova have secured planning consent for two large-scale BESS projects in the UK, which together total 2,425MW/5,150MWh of energy storage capacity.
A growing industry trend towards larger battery cell sizes and higher energy density containers is contributing significantly to falling battery energy storage system (BESS) costs.
CATL has filed a complaint in a US court against system integrator Powin for alleged non-payment of shipments of battery cells for BESS.
Portugal has selected 43 winning BESS projects for a share of €100 million (US$105 million) in EU grants while, on the other side of Europe, Moldova has launched a 75MW BESS procurement with funding from USAID.
The UK government has not ruled out changing grid access rights for new energy storage projects as part of its REMA reforms, a potential move that consultancy AFRY and investor Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) discussed with Energy-Storage.news.
Project owners BSTOR and Energy Solutions Group have started building separate BESS projects totalling 440MWh of capacity in Belgium, following financial close, both of which will use Tesla Megapacks.
Private equity firm Partners Group has invested in ‘green flexibility’, a BESS platform in Germany, with an initial equity commitment of €400 million.
IPP Polat Energy is deploying multiple renewables-plus-BESS projects in Turkey, and has ordered a 132MWh BESS from the system integration arm of Rolls-Royce for one of them.
IPP Nofar Energy has agreed a Flexibility Purchase Agreement (FPA) for a 209MWh BESS project in Germany, the first of its kind in Continental Europe, it claimed.
