Power generation firm RWE has put a BESS in the Netherlands into commercial operation, its first that is capable of providing inertia to the grid.

Infrastructure investor I4B and utility Luminus have closed the financing and launched construction on a 150MW/600MWh BESS project in Belgium.

The question of where the cells in a BESS are from ties in to safety, performance, design and, increasingly, potential tariffs.

A district network heating operator in Finland has commissioned a 1MW/100MWh thermal energy storage project using novel ‘Sand Battery’ technology from Polar Night Energy.

Energy storage-focused lithium-ion OEM Hithium has started mass production of the world’s first 1,000Ah+ battery cell, which it is targeting for long-duration energy storage (LDES) applications.

IPP Econergy has entered the energy storage market in Germany with two BESS project acquisitions totalling 100MW/200MWh of capacity.

Terralayr has made headlines recently with its BESS aggregation tolling platform, executing long-term tolls in Germany with big power firms RWE and Vattenfall, but how unique are these deals in reality?

Inverter and BESS firm Sungrow has launched its latest grid-scale energy storage product offering beyond the 20-foot form factor, following in the footsteps of other providers.

Details on the wind-down of US-based BESS firm American Energy Storage Innovations (AESI) have come out, while battery recycler Li-Cycle has filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy and been ordered to cease stock market trading.

China continues to dominate BESS deployments globally with 4.3GW/11.2GWh of deployments in May, including a 1GWh flow battery system.