The BESS ‘land grab’ looks set to continue as Tier 2 companies vie for market share before countries potentially curb imports from China, with one developer suggesting the recent CATL-Duke Energy case will “not be unique”.

Belgium’s energy minister visited the site of a large-scale lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery storage project, a few days after attending the inauguration of a vanadium flow battery system.   

Optimisation company Flower has acquired a 42.5MW/42.5MWh BESS project from developer OX2 in Sweden, a milestone deal for both companies.

Investments totalling US$425 million combined have been secured by US storage and solar developer-operators Lightshift Energy and MN8 Energy.

California Public Utilities Commission has approved requests to allow solar and storage facilities to use Limited Generation Profiles (LGPs).

Big investments are being made into the battery recycling sector in Europe as the continent looks to increase the domestic supply of critical materials for its lithium-ion gigafactory projects.

The mayor of a town in Germany has allocated land at a former nuclear power plant site for a 120MW/280MWh BESS, after the government rejected plans to use it for storing nuclear waste.

Solar PV inverter and battery energy storage system (BESS) manufacturer Sungrow has signed a strategic supply agreement with Gulf Energy Development in Thailand.

Software for modelling technical and economic performance, seismic activity certification for flow batteries and underwriting for BESS projects, in this edition of news in brief from around the world in energy storage.

Energy security concerns are very real, but jumping into a ‘dash for gas’ would be a mistake, and LNG is not the answer, writes Eric Dresselhuys, CEO of ESS Inc.