UK-based utility Octopus Energy will optimise UK battery storage projects for UAE-based Masdar, which has committed to investing £1 billion (US$1.25 million) in the country’s grid-scale market.
Oil and gas firm TotalEnergies has enlisted subsidiary Saft to deploy a 25MW/75MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) at a refinery in Antwerp, Belgium.
French renewable energy company Voltalia has completed the expansion of a renewable energy plant in French Guiana, adding a battery energy storage system (BESS) of 10.6MWh.
Powin has ‘big plans’ in the balance-of-system space and could become ‘the biggest energy storage platform in the world’, president Anthony Carroll says.
Energy Vault secured 2.8GWh of project orders in the first quarter of 2023 and revealed that it has invested in Kore Power, the US lithium-ion battery and BESS firm, though booked revenues fell 75%.
Global battery storage system integrator Powin and recently-launched EPC firm Linxon have secured battery storage project contracts in ERCOT, Texas, totalling 400MWh and 200MWh respectively.
