US president Donald Trump will enact an additional 10% tariff on goods from China, affecting batteries and BESS, on top of a previously-announced tariff increase set to come in next month.
The European Union (EU) has launched the Clean Industrial Deal and Affordable Energy Action Plan, which dedicate at least €100 billion towards boosting industry, manufacturing and speeding up the rollout of renewables and energy storage.
As Europe’s BESS industry matures, project owner-operators are taking on more control – and risk – when it comes to procuring technology and services for their projects.
IPP E energija Group has started building what it claims is the largest ‘private’ BESS project in Lithuania, a few weeks after the Baltic region decoupled from Russia’s electricity grid.
European lithium-ion OEM Northvolt has sold the division in which its ESS manufacturing plant in Poland sits, as it continues to divest non-core assets amidst its ongoing Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
A fire broke out at an under-construction BESS project in Essex, England, on 19 February and was brought under control and then handed back to site management a day later.
Commercial operation has started on the 100MW/331MWh Bramley battery energy storage system (BESS), a project in the UK deployed by owner-operator BW ESS, developer Penso Power and BESS provider Sungrow.
