The UK government is looking to bring in policy specifically around long-duration energy storage (LDES) by the end of next year.

The second life energy storage market is about to enter a consolidation phase, CEO of Mercedes-Benz Energy tells Energy-Storage.news.

The Energy Storage Summit 2023 was attended by more than a thousand delegates and featured a veritable who’s-who of the sector.

Swathes of energy storage projects including battery storage and pumped hydro have been approved by the regulator in Greece, as the country prepares for a big battery storage auction.

Some 100-200MW of grid-scale battery storage could come online in Sweden this year, local developer Ingrid Capacity told Energy-Storage.news.

Hitachi Energy has installed a 6.25MW/7.5MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in the Faroe Islands for utility SEV, with substantial benefits to a connected wind farm.

The battery storage industry can learn lessons on how to approach fire safety from more established sectors as it works to develop standards.

The power solutions arm of manufacturing firm Volvo Group has expanded into the battery energy storage system (BESS) market, launching a sub-system product initially in the US and Europe.

Huge wind power deployments and the limitations of the existing fleet of pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) are driving the battery storage market in Finland, a local system integrator said.

One of Belgium’s largest battery energy storage system projects so far has been brought online at the site of a former coal power plant.