RWE has taken a final investment decision (FID) on 400MW/1.1GWh BESS in the Netherlands with construction to start in due course, while Giga Storage has started building its 2.8GWh Green Turtle project in Belgium.
Covenergo and Delta Capacity have begun construction on AKKU One, a standalone 125MW/300MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Lapinlahti, Finland, with commissioning targeted for the fourth quarter of 2027.
Poland’s grid-scale storage market has reached an impressive scale in the last few years, helped by the capacity market and various government schemes, but numerous challenges now need to be overcome.
System integrator Fluence and lithium-ion battery OEM Eve Energy have struck a massive 206GWh battery supply framework agreement for 2027-31, one of the largest deals of its kind ever announced.
Existing assets can provide crucial benchmarks in sizing and other crucial battery storage design decisions, writes Ashutosh Vats, head of BESS business development at 3E.
A roundup of some of our key takeaways from the Energy Storage Summit Germany this week, including around FCAs, inertia, the capacity market (CM), EU restrictions on China, and the future of one very notable system integrator.
At last week’s Battery & Energy Tech Expo in Barcelona, Spain, panellists highlighted some of the challenges that companies are facing for a faster deployment of BESS.