A meeting between energy storage industry representatives and the UK’s energy minister Greg Hands took place last week.

We caught up with GridBeyond’s asset development director Chris Smith to discuss optimising utility scale batteries.

Pivot Power has secured planning permission for two 50MW/100MWh lithium-ion battery storage sites in the UK.

Energy group Enel has started operating a 4MW/1.7MWh backup power storage system at a plant in Spain’s North African territory using 78 repurposed Nissan electric vehicle (EV) batteries.

Indonesia’s state-owned utility and battery producer have launched a 5MW battery energy storage system (BESS) pilot project, the first up to 2GW of battery storage it could deploy on its national grid.

Lithium iron phosphate (LFP) will be the dominant battery chemistry over nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) by 2028, in a global market of demand exceeding 3,000GWh by 2030.

Tesla has been contracted to provide 300MWh of its Megapack BESS for projects in development by Edify Energy in Australia. 

Developer Alcemi and investment group CIP have partnered for the development, construction and operation of a 4GW UK BESS portfolio.

The German battery storage market continues to be dominated by the residential segment which accounted for 93% of the 1,350MWh of capacity installed last year, according to research by a group of Aachen-based institutions.