IPP Neoen has started construction on a 2-hour 56.4MW/112.9MWh BESS in Finland, in the context of market dynamics which optimiser Capalo AI explained to Energy-Storage.news.

Turkey and India’s policies towards battery imports and domestic production, astonishment at China’s 2023 deployment figures and sifting through some ‘bragawatt-hour’ claims in this week’s Friday Briefing.

The Public Utility Commission of Texas has ordered the state’s grid operator ERCOT to rescind state-of-charge (SOC) rules requiring batteries to hold additional capacity to provide ancillary services.

New rules could open up Sweden’s flexibility services market but may also simply favour incumbents, Nordic flexibility services provider Flextools told Energy-Storage.news, discussing wider challenges to deployment.

Energy-Storage.news Premium hears how LFP import duties could encourage domestic supply chains to help meet demand for BESS in Turkey.

Quantumscape is ‘not revealing a commercialisation roadmap for non-automotive applications’ for its solid state battery, it told Energy-Storage.news, while 24M Technologies gave us an update on its latest ‘SemiSolid’ battery product.

This Friday Briefing looks at some big new projects already announced this year and the new BloombergNEF Tier-1 BESS list.

We hear from UK battery storage developer-operators and long-duration energy storage (LDES) technology firms on the government’s recently-released LDES consultation, which has proposed a cap and floor scheme to kickstart investment.

BloombergNEF has launched its Energy Storage Tier 1 list of providers, noting growth in new players from the China market.

The German government published a strategy for electricity storage in December, with a comment period for trade associations closing yesterday (16 January).