Developer Ingrid Capacity and the storage arm of maritime firm BW Group are now building 14 BESS projects in Sweden with a combined capacity of over 200MW, with the latter also entering the Italian market.

Blackstone and Foss & Company have completed transferability investment tax credit (ITC) deals for BESS projects in California and Texas, a market which has grown “faster than anyone expected” according to tax credit ecosystem Crux.

Blackstone Credit & Insurance, the newest business division of global asset manager Blackstone, has closed financing for a large-scale battery storage project in California, US, with developer Arevon.

The Republic of Ireland’s environment minister Eamon Ryan was on hand last week as a 75MW/150MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) was officially inaugurated.

Multinational utility and IPP RWE has started building its first battery energy storage system (BESS) project in the Netherlands.

The European Parliament and European Council have agreed regulations to support strategic net zero technologies.

Swiss-headquartered independent power producer (IPP) Axpo has brought its first BESS project in Sweden online, a 20MW/20MWh system in Landskrona.

Equis Australia and the State Electricity Commission have secured AU$400 million in financing for their Melbourne Renewable Energy Hub (MREH) battery storage project.

Zinc-bromine flow battery technology company Redflow has received a grant award and notice-to-proceed (NTP) for two projects in California, US, totalling 21.6MWh.

EDF Renewables UK has entered into an optimisation agreement with investors DIF and ib vogt to optimise a co-located solar and storage project in the UK.