BESS asset management in the UK has moved beyond the rudimentary ‘project delivery and basic O&M’ approach, a speaker at the upcoming Battery Asset Management Summit UK & Ireland explained in a Q&A.

Germany has awarded contracts to 490MW of solar-plus-storage projects in its latest “innovation” auction for co-located renewables.

Lithuania’s government will publish a call for applications tomorrow (10 October) for a scheme to support energy storage, which is deemed crucial to the country’s energy security.

GoldenPeaks Capital (GPC) and Huawei Polska have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) cooperation focusing on 500MWh grid-forming BESS in Europe.

Repurposing EV battery packs and modules into BESS obviously has environmental benefits, but challenges around pricing, performance and safety remain, panellists at an industry event in London said last week.

BSW-Solar has called on the German government to impose a target of 100GWh of cumulative operational BESS by 2030.

Asset manager AIP Management has bought a 49% stake in a 2.4GWh UK portfolio from global BESS investment platform BW ESS for a deal in excess of £650 million (US$873 million).

BESS provider Sungrow and power firm Engie have connected the first phase of a 400MW/800MWh project, one of the largest in Europe, to the grid in Belgium.

More than 30 stakeholder organisations in the US energy storage value chain have formed a new association to represent common interests.

The TSO of Italy has completed its first MACSE auctions for energy storage, procuring 10GWh of capacity at what the NHOA CEO called ‘exceptionally competitive prices’.