A US battery storage pilot sponsored by tech giant Google has demonstrated how batteries can capture surplus renewable energy and deliver it during hours with greater fossil generation.
Poland’s grid-scale storage market has reached an impressive scale in the last few years, helped by the capacity market and various government schemes, but numerous challenges now need to be overcome.
System integrator Fluence and lithium-ion battery OEM Eve Energy have struck a massive 206GWh battery supply framework agreement for 2027-31, one of the largest deals of its kind ever announced.
In this US news roundup, Eos has received an advance on its DOE loan, FlexGen and Lighshift have partnered on 16 BESS projects, and Georgia Power has energised a 128MW BESS.
A roundup of some of our key takeaways from the Energy Storage Summit Germany this week, including around FCAs, inertia, the capacity market (CM), EU restrictions on China, and the future of one very notable system integrator.
Interconnection costs for utility-scale energy storage in California are significantly lower than in other major US markets, with developers also benefiting from network upgrade cost reimbursements unavailable elsewhere, according to a senior executive at Rev Renewables.
Recent moves from the US federal government could prove more damaging to US renewable energy deployment than foreign entity of concern (FEOC) compliance requirements, according to legal and industry experts.
On 26 August, US President Donald Trump banned the import of inverters, transformers and other power equipment citing a potential risk to US grid security, via emergency executive order (EO).
