UK-based clean energy developer Harmony Energy now has a pipeline of BESS projects that are ready-to-build in France, Germany and Poland, its chief investment officer said at the Energy Storage Summit EU in London last month.

Utility and IPP Enel has sold a 49% stake in its subsidiary that will own and operate 1.7GW of battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in Italy, to investor Sosteneo.

Energy Vault has connected its first commercial EVx gravity-based energy storage system to the grid in China, while construction has been launched on three others, all-in-all totalling 468MWh of capacity.

Italy grid-scale energy storage market opportunities unlike anywhere else, but many challenges and uncertainties around the different revenue streams remain, including the upcoming MACSE capacity market auction.

EDF Renewables North America has signed a PPA with California utility Southern California Public Power Authority (SCPPA) for part of the offtake of a solar-plus-storage project in neighbouring Nevada with a 780MWh BESS.

We hear from industry sources about why we’ve seen a flurry of investors acquiring energy storage developer-operators in the UK and Germany, Europe’s two largest markets by BESS deployments.

UK firm G2 Energy is moving into full BESS wrapped EPC services under its new owner Mitie, having focused on a grid connections and balance-of-plant (BOP) engineering services prior to its predecessor company’s bankruptcy last year, CEO Kelvin Ruck said.

Spain and the Netherlands have launched subsidy schemes to support domestic manufacturing of clean energy technologies, including batteries and solar PV modules.

Sungrow tells Energy-Storage.news that it does not currently have plans to launch its own lithium-ion battery cell production for battery energy storage system (BESS) products, a route being taken by other China-based system integrators. 

Masdar Arlington Energy, Renewable Power Capital and TagEnergy have broken ground on, acquired and financed projects UK battery energy storage system (BESS) projects totalling 162MW of power.