Another edition of our BESS Industry Buzz, taking a look at what’s got industry people talking in the corridors of social media. 

Intilion has just tied up with CATL for sodium-ion BESS deployments in Europe, following Alfen’s similar move in July, while Merus Power tells us it is in the process of integrating with the OEM’s new product. 

Infrastructure investor Actis has entered the Polish energy storage market with the acquisition of two large-scale projects from DTEK’s DRI, while R.Power and Solax have announced project updates in the country. 

BESS owner-operator Return has put its 100MW/200MWh Antares BESS in the Netherlands into commercial operation, the largest to have reached that stage in the country as far as we know.

The first half of the year saw mixed results among China’s leading ESS suppliers, though generally the industry is still performing strongly, writes PV Tech ESS analyst Charlotte Gisbourne. 

BESS owner-operator BW ESS has launched construction on its second large-scale project in Italy in the space of a month, while developers Galileo and Aura Power have progressed portfolios in the country. 

BESS operators should be planning their projects against different locational price and charging regimes of the future rather than solely against the current revenue opportunities.

IPP Zelestra and power firm and utility EDP have agreed two new hybrid PPAs in Spain, adding 181MWdc of solar and 462MWh BESS to their existing co-operation. 

Elliot Squire, senior asset manager for Varco Energy, discusses current and future trends in battery storage.

Spain’s recent proposal for data centres could be the catalyst the country’s energy storage market has been waiting for, argues Ignacio López Martín from developer Capflex Energía.