Hitachi Energy has installed a 6.25MW/7.5MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in the Faroe Islands for utility SEV, with substantial benefits to a connected wind farm.

The battery storage industry can learn lessons on how to approach fire safety from more established sectors as it works to develop standards.

The power solutions arm of manufacturing firm Volvo Group has expanded into the battery energy storage system (BESS) market, launching a sub-system product initially in the US and Europe.

Aypa Power has bought two “late-stage development” battery storage projects in Indiana, US, from Blue Steel Power.

Sungrow has signed another battery storage supply deal with renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure developer Doral for projects in Israel.

ACWA Power has signed a partnership agreement to develop a large-scale wind energy and battery storage project in Kazakhstan.

Huge wind power deployments and the limitations of the existing fleet of pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) are driving the battery storage market in Finland, a local system integrator said.

One of Belgium’s largest battery energy storage system projects so far has been brought online at the site of a former coal power plant.

The battery storage sector is about to enter its first ever phase of large-scale augmentations of systems as they reach 3-5 year degradation points and there are questions over how this will pan out, Burns & McDonnell told Energy-Storage.news.

Powin “very close” to announcing first US factory, company working to extend its reach into new markets including the UK.