A solar-plus-storage power plant, deployed at the site of an opencast lignite mine in Germany, is almost ready to go into action.

EStor-Lux, Belgium’s battery energy storage system (BESS) at 10MW/20MWh, was officially inaugurated on Tuesday (26 April).

News in brief from around the world in energy storage.

London-listed energy storage investor Gore Street Capital CEO Alex O’Cinneide discussed its fund’s recent expansion outside UK/Ireland and which markets are most of interest, in an interview with Energy-storage.news.

Greece has doubled its 2030 target for energy storage deployment to 3GW as it aims for a renewable electricity generation proportion of 70%.

The German energy storage market continued to be dominated by the residential segment in 2021 although utility-scale battery revenues grew by nearly six times year-on-year, according to new figures from the national storage association.

Leclanché will provide an 11.9MWh BESS for deployment at a utility-scale solar PV power plant near Kaiserslauten, Germany.

Amazon has added 37 new renewable energy projects to its portfolio, including two solar-plus-storage plants. 

Energy-storage.news catches up with Thomas Cornell, Senior VP Energy Storage Solutions at Mitsubishi Power Americas about the company’s energy storage market activity, strategy and future plans.

Google hails project to retrofit data centre with battery storage as a step towards rolling out similar solutions across global fleet.