A roundup from a very busy fortnight of UK BESS news, with major project announcements from Field, Cero Generation, Fidra Energy, Sungrow, Green Nation and Low Carbon, as well as ESB and SSE news items from neighbouring Ireland.

BESS owner-operator BW ESS and developer ACL Energy have expanded their development pipeline in Italy to 2.9GW.

Australian utility Origin Energy has officially approved the third stage of its Eraring battery energy storage system (BESS), bringing its facility in New South Wales to 2,800MWh.

We hear from two platforms facilitating domestic content investment tax credit (ITC) deals in the US, tax credit deal ecosystem Crux and procurement platform Anza, on how far the incentive has penetrated the energy storage market.

Renewable energy developer-investor Aquila Clean Energy has contracted optimiser Entrix to provide route-to-market services for two battery projects in Germany.

Solar PV and BESS firm Canadian Solar will build a BESS and cell manufacturing facility in Kentucky, in a factory which was recently vacated by metal-hydrogen battery company EnerVenue.

Construction is underway on a 100MWh thermal energy storage project in Finland, using the same ‘Sand Battery’ technology as a 8MWh system which came online in 2022.

Western Australia has revealed a new long-duration vanadium flow battery pilot in the town of Kununurra exploring the use of the technology in microgrids and off-grid power systems.

Australia has signed climate action and renewabele energy partnerships with India and the UK, which both include energy storage.

Plans for a 400MW standalone BESS in Howard County, Indiana, proposed by Spearmint Energy faced a major setback last week.