UK-based utility Octopus Energy will optimise UK battery storage projects for UAE-based Masdar, which has committed to investing £1 billion (US$1.25 million) in the country’s grid-scale market.

Oil and gas firm TotalEnergies has enlisted subsidiary Saft to deploy a 25MW/75MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) at a refinery in Antwerp, Belgium.

Global battery storage system integrator Fluence doubled its revenues in the first three months of 2023 and increased its full-year guidance again.

Revenues for zinc battery firm Eos Energy Enterprises rebounded in the first three months of 2023, having fallen sharply in Q4 2022.

French renewable energy company Voltalia has completed the expansion of a renewable energy plant in French Guiana, adding a battery energy storage system (BESS) of 10.6MWh.

Powin has ‘big plans’ in the balance-of-system space and could become ‘the biggest energy storage platform in the world’, president Anthony Carroll says.

Energy Vault secured 2.8GWh of project orders in the first quarter of 2023 and revealed that it has invested in Kore Power, the US lithium-ion battery and BESS firm, though booked revenues fell 75%.

Global battery storage system integrator Powin and recently-launched EPC firm Linxon have secured battery storage project contracts in ERCOT, Texas, totalling 400MWh and 200MWh respectively.

Conglomerate GE will provide six 37MW turbines for a pumped hydro energy storage plant in the Spanish overseas territory of Gran Canaria.

The Inflation Reduction Act could “suck the oxygen out” of the Latin American (LatAm) energy storage market, the CEO of pan-American energy storage firm On.Energy said.