As the battery storage market continues its strong growth trajectory, battery manufacturers are ramping up production to meet increased demand.

Hithium, an integrated energy storage solutions provider known for its leadership in long-duration energy storage, is now seeing strong momentum across its residential businesses and C&I. We discussed this with the company at the Smarter E Europe trade show in Germany last month.  

CHINT Global’s Beibei Zheng discusses how the company is responding to Europe’s dual challenge of AI sovereignty and energy security.

BW ESS’ executive director Roberto Jimenez discusses the company’s recently-announced first Germany project, in Klostermansfeld, Saxony-Anhalt, which could be one of Europe’s largest when completed in 2028.

System integrator Alfen and battery company CATL have struck a 5GWh partnership for sodium-ion BESS deployments in Europe.

There’s been a flurry of project completions across Europe this past week, with projects completed in Germany, Estonia, Belgium, Denmark and Bulgaria by RheinEnergie/SMA, BSP, BStor, European Energy and Sunotec respectively, totalling nearly 700MWh of capacity.

A shift is happening in Europe’s commercial & industrial (C&I) energy storage market, and integrated energy storage solutions provider Hithium is addressing this demand with a purpose-built 4-hour solution. 

Some 9.1GW/33.5GWh of large-scale BESS came online globally last month, with Saudi Arabia accounting for over one-third of the figure.

We caught up with the CCO of Netherlands-headquartered startup Moonwatt at last month’s Smarter E Europe trade show in Munich for a video interview.

Owner-operator Giga Storage has secured a €450 million (US$512 million) financing package for its 700MW/2,800MWh Green Turtle BESS project in Belgium.