IPP MET Group has put a 40M/80MWh BESS in Hungary into commercial operation, deployed using technology from Huawei.

We caught up with the CEO of Bulgaria-based International Power Supply (IPS) to discuss its claimed first mass-scale cell-to-system BESS manufacturing facility in Europe and its ultra-high density 20-foot product.

BBVA has signed a deal to establish a revenue structure for a new thermal energy storage (TES) technology demonstration project.

IPP R.Power Renewables will launch construction on large-scale BESS projects in Romania and Poland in the second half of this year, while Electrica is procuring EPC works for its own BESS project.

Developer Ilmatar and investor Nuveen Infrastructure have put a 30MW/41MWh BESS in northern Finland into commercial operation.

Power generation firm RWE has put a BESS in the Netherlands into commercial operation, its first that is capable of providing inertia to the grid.

Infrastructure investor I4B and utility Luminus have closed the financing and launched construction on a 150MW/600MWh BESS project in Belgium.

The question of where the cells in a BESS are from ties in to safety, performance, design and, increasingly, potential tariffs.

A district network heating operator in Finland has commissioned a 1MW/100MWh thermal energy storage project using novel ‘Sand Battery’ technology from Polar Night Energy.

Samsung SDI will supply megawatt-scale battery storage solutions to Germany-headquartered commercial and industrial (C&I) segment specialist Tesvolt.