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Energy storage helps solve UK’s renewable energy puzzle: What’s making this ‘simple idea’ complicated?

Energy storage is a key enabler of net zero emissions in the UK, but some unresolved challenges still make it a complex sector to navigate, as Antonia Silvestri and Gary Roscoe, partners at law firm TLT, explain.

LG Energy Solution’s six-year deal ‘signals importance of securing lithium supply’ for ESS industry

A six-year lithium off-take contract signed by LG Energy Solution and supplier Sigma Lithium “signals the importance of securing lithium supply and the importance of ESG,” an industry supply chain expert has said.

Northvolt’s US$750m R&D campus will directly benefit battery manufacturer’s grid-storage efforts

Northvolt has announced an expansion to its R&D centre in Sweden which will turn the facility into “Europe’s leading campus for battery technologies”.

ESS Inc becomes ‘US’ first publicly-traded long-duration energy storage company’

Shares and warrants of iron flow battery provider ESS Inc have commenced trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). 

VIDEO: Why Greece is becoming an energy storage market hub for Europe

Energy-Storage.news proudly presents this sponsored webinar with consultancy Clean Horizon, discussing why Greece can be an important European market for energy storage.

Penso Power's Minety battery project, currently the largest operational BESS of its type in Europe. Image: Shell Energy Europe.
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UK developer Penso Power secures funds for 3GWh battery storage pipeline

October 21, 2021
Developer Penso Power has signed a new agreement with global maritime group BW Group that will see the build-out of the former’s UK battery storage pipeline fully funded.
A solar and battery storage system donated to a Puerto Rico facility by Tesla after the 2017 hurricanes. Image: Tesla.
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Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority readying renewables and energy storage Request for Proposals

October 20, 2021
Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) has sought approval for the launch of its latest Request for Proposals (RfP) for renewable energy and energy storage resources. 
Work underway to install a Fluence Gridstack utility-scale project. Image: Fluence.
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Fluence’s IPO could raise US$750 million, trebling company’s billion-dollar+ valuation

October 20, 2021
Fluence could raise more than US$700 million from the planned initial public offering (IPO) of its Class A common stock which would be listed on the Nasdaq Global Market. 
Pivot Power's 50MW battery energy storage system (BESS) went live in June this year. Image: Pivot Power.
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‘Huge achievement’ as 50MW battery system is first to export to UK grid from tertiary connection

October 20, 2021
Pivot Power’s 50MW/50MWh lithium-ion battery storage site in Oxford is the first tertiary connection in the UK to export to the grid.
Other projects awarded to NHOA are in territories including Guam, Italy, Massachusetts and Hawaii (pictured). Image: Engie EPS / NHOA
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NHOA awarded contract for Western Australia’s biggest BESS, at decommissioned coal plant

October 20, 2021
Further details of a 200MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) contract awarded to New HOrizons Ahead (NHOA) in Australia have been revealed. 
Energy Vault's existing 5MW demonstrator project in Switzerland. Image: Energy Vault.
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Energy Vault asks investors to bet on pre-commercial gravity storage tech ahead of NYSE listing

October 19, 2021
Special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Novus Capital Corporation II chose to merge with novel gravity and kinetic energy-based storage Energy Vault after receiving target proposals from more than 100 different firms. 
SEPCO III and Huawei Digital Power signed the contract at Huawei's Dubai summit last week. Image: Huawei.
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Huawei signs 1,300MWh solar-charged battery contract for Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Project

October 19, 2021
Huawei Digital Power has said it will supply battery energy storage system (BESS) technology to what is thought to be the world’s largest off-grid energy storage project to date. 
A Western Power community, or neighbourhood battery storage project. In its more rural service areas the state-owned network company said standalone power systems and DMGs could be a feasible way to serve local communities and businesses with power. Image: Western Power.
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Off-grid energy system tender could play ‘crucial role’ in rural Western Australia’s future

October 19, 2021
Western Australia’s state-owned electricity network operator is tendering for a “disconnected microgrid” project which could be replicated if successful, to cost-effectively give rural communities reliable and safe power supplies.
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Swell Energy, sonnen turn household solar storage into grid assets in California and Utah

October 18, 2021
Virtual power plant (VPP) company Swell Energy and battery storage provider sonnen have both announced deals that will turn thousands of residential solar-powered energy storage systems into valuable resources for their local grid network.
Features, Interviews

Discovery and invention: How the vanadium flow battery story began

October 18, 2021
Andy Colthorpe speaks to Maria Skyllas-Kazacos, one of the original inventors of the vanadium redox flow battery, about the origins of the technology and its progression.

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Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority readying renewables and energy storage Request for Proposals

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‘Huge achievement’ as 50MW battery system is first to export to UK grid from tertiary connection

NHOA awarded contract for Western Australia’s biggest BESS, at decommissioned coal plant

Energy Vault asks investors to bet on pre-commercial gravity storage tech ahead of NYSE listing

Huawei signs 1,300MWh solar-charged battery contract for Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Project

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UK developer Penso Power secures funds for 3GWh battery storage pipeline

October 21, 2021

Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority readying renewables and energy storage Request for Proposals

October 20, 2021

Fluence’s IPO could raise US$750 million, trebling company’s billion-dollar+ valuation

October 20, 2021

NHOA awarded contract for Western Australia’s biggest BESS, at decommissioned coal plant

October 20, 2021

Commercial

US distributed energy tech platform companies AutoGrid, Leap, raise US$117m funding

October 15, 2021

Microgrids save businesses money and battery storage is the ‘key hardware technology’

October 14, 2021

Strategic about energy storage: Enel X is taking learnings from North America to rest of world

October 6, 2021

South America’s first virtual power plant part of Stem Inc’s strategy to gain foothold in Chile

September 17, 2021

Residential

Swell Energy, sonnen turn household solar storage into grid assets in California and Utah

October 18, 2021

Sunnova, AutoGrid create residential virtual power plant for California community energy supplier CPA

September 28, 2021

Generac adds ability sell power back to grid to its home battery storage systems

August 27, 2021

Australian community battery VPP trial will put ‘batteries on poles’ across electric distribution network

August 20, 2021
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