Owner-operator Fidra Energy came out of virtually nowhere to be building one of Europe’s largest BESS in the UK, the 1.4GW/3.1GWh Thorpe Marsh project. We catch up with CEO Chris Elder, about its strategy and projects but also broader BESS and clean energy financing trends.
Carrie Xiao examines some notable recent partnerships and supply agreements for Chinese energy storage players in the Middle East, Europe, Africa and Australia.
Energy infrastructure platform Revera Energy has completed an expanded US$150 million credit facility to accelerate development and construction of its battery storage, solar, and green hydrogen project pipeline across Australia and the UK.
Europe’s energy storage market has hit a turning point. What was once a scattered, early-phase market featuring pilot projects and daring developers has swiftly evolved into a dynamic, capital-intensive infrastructure sector, writes Wood Mackenzie research associate Cecilie Kristiansen.
That was the view of Søren Juel Hansen, energy storage director at Nordic Solar, when asked by Energy-Storage.news about the role of transmission system operators (TSO) in the industry.
A 100MW/200MWh BESS project in Estonia has been inaugurated by Baltic Storage Platform (BSP), a joint venture (JV) between Baltic developer Evecon, French independent power producer (IPP) Corsica Sole and investment manager Mirova.
“Standalone solar is not dead, but it is challenging,” said Pierre Bartholin, head of power hedging at investor Nuveen Infrastructure, opening the debate at Solar Media’s Solar Finance Investment Europe (SFIE) conference in London on the future of co-located battery storage.
