Iron-saltwater flow battery company ESS Inc looks set to deploy by far its largest project to-date, a 50MW/500MWh system at a renewables hub from German energy firm LEAG, with potential for more.
Significant partnerships in Germany have been struck on second life energy storage and large-scale deployments, by ABO Wind and Tricera, and Kyon Energy and Obton, respectively.
The European Commission has given the go-ahead to a €150 million (US$160 million) state aid scheme for renewable energy and energy storage in Slovenia.
In a big week for the grid-scale energy storage market in Italy, regulators have approved new grid storage-specific auction rules and a chunk of Aura Power’s 500MW-plus pipeline of BESS projects.