We recently caught up with Georg Gallmetzer, managing director of German BESS platform Eco Stor, about the firm’s role in formulating flexible connection agreements (FCAs) and how this was intimately tied to the debate on grid fees. 

IPP Greenvolt Power has started building its Siedlce battery storage project in Poland, while Gore Street, Taaleri Energia and DS1 have moved to construction on projects in Poland, Estonia and Lithuania respectively. 

During the Battery & Energy Storage Tech Expo in Barcelona, Spain, Energy-storage.news spoke with Ken Davies, chief commercial officer at Digital Product Passport (DPP) provider DigiProd Pass and conference program director of the event, about the upcoming implementation of the EU Battery Passport.

UK energy industry regulator Ofgem said it is minded to approve the introduction of a financial commitment for BESS in an attempt to reduce the oversupply of the projects awaiting a grid connection.

Compressed air energy storage (CAES) holds much promise for large-scale, LDES, but has struggled to get off the ground outside of China.

A flurry of project completions, financings and supplier deals for large-scale BESS across the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region, from Greenvolt, Renovatio & CATL, Eurowind, Renalfa, MOL Group, Tavion, MetaWealth and Enexus & Longi. 

Nearly 21GWh of grid-scale BESS came online globally last month, of which around a fifth was in Saudi Arabia while the majority was in China. 

RWE has taken a final investment decision (FID) on 400MW/1.1GWh BESS in the Netherlands with construction to start in due course, while Giga Storage has started building its 2.8GWh Green Turtle project in Belgium.

What is repetitive re-trading (RTT) by BESS in the UK, and what is NESO looking to do about it?  

Covenergo and Delta Capacity have begun construction on AKKU One, a standalone 125MW/300MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Lapinlahti, Finland, with commissioning targeted for the fourth quarter of 2027.