Microsoft’s project to equip a data centre with a ‘grid-interactive’ battery storage system shows “what is possible”.

The role of energy storage in helping Europe’s energy security is increasingly being recognised, said keynote speakers at The Energy Storage Summit EU today, hosted by our publisher Solar Media.

Zenobē Energy has started construction of a 300MW/600MWh battery energy storage project in Blackhillock, Scotland.

Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) firm Nuvve will use its platform to manage 40MW of EV chargers and battery storage capacity in frequency regulation markets in Norway and Denmark.

The global need for grid-scale energy storage will rise rapidly in the coming years as the transition away from fossil fuels accelerates.

We hear from two battery storage insurance industry sources about how they view the technology and the main risks they assess when designing policies.

Deutsche Telekom has announced the first battery energy storage system installation in a 300MWh rollout in Germany, with Norwegian firm Pixii the technology provider.

Grid operators from across Europe believe energy storage is a vital flexibility resource that should be incentivised.

Finland telecommunications firm Elisa has received €3.9 million from the government to form a VPP using batteries which could be the largest of its kind in Europe.

Battery storage projects totalling 627MW were awarded contracts in the UK’s 2023-24 Capacity Market auction which concluded yesterday (14 February), nearly a two-thirds jump on last year’s.