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

Canadian Solar has launched a utility-scale energy storage product and announced a battery manufacturing capacity target of 10GWh by end-2023, up from 2.5GWh today.

Some 2,000 residential battery systems in Belgium have been aggregated into a virtual power plant (VPP) and are providing balancing services to transmission system operator Elia.

Global energy company RWE will bring a 72MW battery energy storage system (BESS) online in November in Werne, Germany, the first of two connected systems totalling 112MW, a spokesperson told Energy-Storage.news.

The European Commission has approved €19.8 million (US$20.1 million) in state aid from the government of Croatia to energy storage operator IE-Energy for a series of grid-connected projects.

Sherif Abdelrazek from energy storage software company Storlytics on one of the major challenges still faced in the BESS space.

London Stock Exchange-listed NESF has launched a joint venture partnership with developer Eelpower worth £200 million (US$233 million).

This edition of news in brief comes from another busy week for our colleagues covering the UK energy transition.

Three Tesla Megapacks have arrived for installation at a power plant in Hungary, the first energy storage project in the country to use the EV giant’s grid-scale product.

The Q3 2022 edition of our journal PV Tech Power is now available to download, featuring in-depth coverage on the rise of solar-plus.