With Document No. 136 scrapping the mandatory energy storage allocation requirement for renewable energy and the rollout of policies governing new energy storage, China’s energy storage market is going through a period of dynamic change.
The utility-scale battery storage market in Italy is drawing huge interest and development activity, writes Solar Media Market Research analyst Josh Cornes.
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.
We caught up with the president of system integrator PotisEdge following news of its acquisition by Longi, which marks the Chinese solar PV giant’s move into the energy storage industry.
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.
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.
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.
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).
The EU Batteries Regulation came into force in 2023, but its various stipulations become law over the next several years. What does it mean for Europe’s BESS developers, operators and suppliers?