A 60MW/67MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Germany being developed by Smart Power with technology provided by SMA is due to be completed imminently.

Recently-formed energy storage developer Ingrid Capacity is building a 70MW battery storage facility in Sweden for a H1 2024 delivery date, the largest planned in the Nordic country.

Centrica Business Solutions will convert a decommissioned gas-fired power station in England into a 100MWh battery storage facility.

Invinity Energy’s UL1973 safety certification will open up doors for its technology and streamline complex project development steps.

Danish energy company Ørsted will run a feasibility study on the deployment of a 20MW/200MWh energy storage system using Italian startup Energy Dome’s ‘CO2 Battery’ technology.

Swedish state-owned energy company Vattenfall has commissioned a green hydrogen storage pilot facility within a 100GWh capacity cavern.

Metal-hydrogen battery startup EnerVenue has signed a master supply agreement (MSA) with Green Energy Renewable Solutions for 250MWh of its technology over the next three years.

Dr Kai-Philipp Kairies of ACCURE discusses how field data, and analytics, can make batteries safer to operate while maximising value.

Recent policy announcements from the European Union could boost the energy storage market, an analyst says, but also reveal inherent weaknesses of the bloc’s free electricity market.

Germany’s early lead among Europe’s battery storage adopters is gone, but some see change coming on the horizon, Cameron Murray writes.