New rules which will reduce grid fees in the Netherlands by providing ‘non-firm agreement’ (NFA) connections as well as time-weighted rates could improve returns and double projected BESS deployments, an analyst has said, though a project owner was less openly optimistic about it.
Europe appears to be slower and less bold than other markets like the US when it comes to financial support for upstream battery material projects like lithium refining, a company looking to invest half a billion euros in an EU project told Energy-Storage.news.
Battery energy storage system (BESS) integrator and manufacturer Powin Energy will get “priority access” to cells from Rept Battero’s new factory in Indonesia.
Energy-Storage.news Premium’s mini-series on fire safety and industry practices concludes with a discussion of strategies for testing and the development of codes and standards.
The UK residential energy storage market has moved from primarily being about coupling with solar PV to one where users seek to take advantage of time-of-use tariffs, solutions provider GivEnergy told Energy-Storage.news.
Natron Energy has started commercial-scale operations at its sodium-ion battery manufacturing plant in Michigan, US, and elaborated on how its technology compares to lithium-ion in answers provided to Energy-Storage.news.
The number of long-duration energy storage (LDES) technologies that will commercialise for applications beyond 24 hours ‘can be counted on one hand’, the CEO of compressed air energy storage (CAES) developer Corre Energy said in an interview.
This Friday Briefing looks at the battery manufacturing race that Europe and the US are set to get into, with both currently trailing far behind leader China.
The energy storage arm of Canadian Solar said the technology ‘has more complexity than solar’ when it comes to nearshoring manufacturing away from China, and local cell manufacturing could be part of the long-term strategy to leverage domestic content incentives.
