A coalition of battery storage developers, including Zenobē, Eelpower, Harmony Energy and Field, has penned a letter to the UK government and National Grid Electricity System Operator (National Grid ESO).
Investor Return has acquired an energy storage development platform in Germany, Swedish optimiser Flower has bought another large-scale BESS project, while Romania’s CIS Group has revealed a flurry of solar and storage projects.
Three-quarters of the lithium-ion battery supply chain could have exposure to forced labour, contravening US and EU laws and potentially leading to products being blocked from those markets, a report said.
ESN Premium speaks with representatives of Lunar Energy and Nomad Power Systems, respectively targeting the tricky VPP and mobile power markets with energy storage-backed solutions.
It was a busy week of news in the UK’s grid-scale energy storage market last week, with BESS projects put into operation by Eku Energy and Harmony Energy Income Trust (HEIT), and projects in the gigawatt-hour scale announced by ESB and Apatura in Scotland.
News from the Nordics and the Baltics, with BESS projects launched in Sweden, Denmark and Latvia by Centrica, Nordic Solar and Niam Infrastructure and Evecon.
Recognition of the role energy storage must play in Europe’s energy transition has been long overdue. Now that it has arrived, the hard work begins, write Julian Jansen and Lars Stephan of system integrator Fluence.
Investor DTEK will build 200MW of battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Ukraine as the country enters its third winter of war with Russia, with continued attacks on its electricity infrastructure looming.
Sweden-headquartered lithium-ion technology Northvolt has concluded its strategic review, revealing it is divesting or ceasing non-core activities, sharpening its focus to battery cell manufacturing and reducing its workforce.
