New Fluence CEO Julian Nebreda is likely to oversee a period with less rapid top-line growth but a greater emphasis on making that growth profitable, an equity analyst told Energy-Storage.news.

The European Commission has approved €19.8 million (US$20.1 million) in state aid from the government of Croatia to energy storage operator IE-Energy for a series of grid-connected projects.

Sherif Abdelrazek from energy storage software company Storlytics on one of the major challenges still faced in the BESS space.

London Stock Exchange-listed NESF has launched a joint venture partnership with developer Eelpower worth £200 million (US$233 million).

A large-scale sodium-sulfur (NAS) battery energy storage system made by NGK Insulators will be installed at a former LNG terminal in Japan.

This edition of news in brief comes from another busy week for our colleagues covering the UK energy transition.

Gravity-based energy storage company Energy Vault is to immediately begin deploying a previously-announced 275MWh battery storage system project in California for Wellhead Electric and W Power.

Three Tesla Megapacks have arrived for installation at a power plant in Hungary, the first energy storage project in the country to use the EV giant’s grid-scale product.

Aquila Capital will acquire a pipeline of large-scale battery storage projects in development in Australia, from Spain’s Gransolar Group.

Pattern Energy has achieved financial close on an offshore wind project in northern Japan to include a 100MW battery energy storage system.