New-build battery storage projects from three developers totalling 357MW awarded contracts in Belgium’s latest capacity market auction.

SUSI Partners has expanded the remit of its Italian solar PV platform ReFeel New Energy to develop battery energy storage systems.

Volvo Cars has launched a new business division focused on smart and bi-directional charging solutions for electric vehicles (EVs).

National Grid is set to accelerate the connection of up to 10GW of battery energy storage projects in England and Wales.

Pacific Green has secured £123.5 million (US$153 million) facility to support construction of its 1.5-hour, 249MW/373.5MWh BESS in Kent, UK.

Developer Altea Green Power has started building four battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in Italy totalling 1GW of capacity.

The renewable energy IPP arm of UK utility SSE is to start building a 320MW/640MWh battery energy storage system (BESS), which could be the largest under-construction in the country.

NHOA Energy has gone from 111MWh of capacity online as of the end of Q3 2022, to a cumulative 535MWh at the end of the same quarter this year.

Huawei and BYD were among the five largest battery energy storage system (BESS) integrators globally last year, with the Chinese market going through a ‘price war’ of competition, according to research from Wood Mackenzie.

Power technology firm Wärtsilä has initiated a strategic review of its energy storage and optimisation (ES&O) business, with “all potential alternatives considered” including divestment.