Chang Beom Kang, Head of the ESS Battery Division at LG Energy Solution, discusses his view of the changing market and the company’s strategy for future growth.

Floors are increasingly the offtake structure of choice in the UK market, and the contracting for them is beginning to standardise, industry experts said.

Another edition of our BESS Industry Buzz, this week looking at new details on CATL’s sodium-ion technology, BESS availability, BAAJA trade-offs and the price of speed to power.

AirTrunk has signed an exclusivity agreement with European Energy Australia covering more than 800MWh of battery storage in NSW.

Stadtwerke Gaggenau, a municipal utility in Germany, has hired a general contractor to build a 4-hour BESS project using the zinc-bromide technology from US firm Eos Energy Enterprises.

Software-focused energy storage system integrator FlexGen will serve as the integrator of MN8 Energy’s solar-plus-storage project in Kanawha, West Virginia, US, using solutions from Eos Energy Enterprises.

Analysis of optimiser performance in the Dutch electricity market highlights the need to separate claims and forecasting from realistic outcomes, writes Omer Bumin of trading infrastructure software company Powerlys.

Alinta Energy’s 100MW/200MWh BESS at its Wagerup thermal power plant in Western Australia has been operating commercially since September.

EnergyAustralia has paid AU$750,000 (US$519,300) in penalties after the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) alleged that four battery energy storage systems (BESS) it manages failed to deliver frequency services offered into the market.

Excelsior Energy Capital-backed developer Lydian Energy has brought its 150MW/600MWh Faraday battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Utah County, Utah, US into commercial operation.