Augmentation and end-of-life disposal look set to grow in significance in the next few years in the US, with nearly 1.5GW/3GWh of BESS projects now four years old or more.

Developer Kona Energy has been granted consent for the construction and operation of its Smeaton BESS project in Scotland, which will total 228MW/456MWh of energy storage capacity.

South Korea-based H2, Inc will deploy a 1.1MW/8.8MWh vanadium flow battery (VFB) in Spain in a government-funded project.

State-owned utility and power generator HSE is targeting 800MW of flexibility assets across Slovenia by 2035, including pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) and battery energy storage systems (BESS).

System integrator Stem Inc has received a warning from regulators over its NYSE listing, while zinc battery technology firm Eos Energy Enterprises completed the first milestones related to private equity firm Cerberus’ investment.

Developer Ingrid Capacity and investor SEB Nordic Energy have partnered to build 13 battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in southern Sweden totalling 196MW of capacity.

IPP Invenergy has put a 50MW BESS into commercial operations in Arizona, US, its 10th in the state.

EVLO Energy, the battery energy storage system (BESS) integrator arm of Canadian utility Hydro-Quebec, has launched a 20-foot 5MWh product.

Utility CPS Energy and IPP Eolian have entered into storage capacity agreements for two battery energy storage system (BESS) projects totalling 350MW of power capacity in the ERCOT, Texas market.

PV module manufacturer Trina Solar has deployed its first energy storage project in Italy, for its project development arm.