This Friday Briefing covers how advanced inverters can impact CO2 levels and why fire safety is a topic the industry can tackle together.

The Energy Storage Awards (ESAs) aim to reward excellence and hard work in the European industry, recognising the pioneering spirit and dedication to positive change it represents. Now in their fourth year, the Energy Storage Awards are brought to you by Solar Media, publisher of global energy storage industry website Energy-Storage-News, and host of events including the Energy Storage Summit series in the UK, US, Asia and Australia.

UK firm G2 Energy is moving into full BESS wrapped EPC services under its new owner Mitie, having focused on a grid connections and balance-of-plant (BOP) engineering services prior to its predecessor company’s bankruptcy last year, CEO Kelvin Ruck said.

Fluence has been issued the required Notice to Proceed on a battery storage project in Australia, which will provide inertia services via the system’s advanced inverter equipment.

Energy Storage Canada (ESC) is “thrilled” that the Canada Infrastructure Bank’s (CIB’s) investment into a large-scale battery storage portfolio will enable Indigenous communities to hold a stake in it.  

Germany and Spain are among the energy storage markets of Europe that clients are most keen to learn more about, according to Wood Mackenzie analyst Anna Darmani.

Sungrow tells Energy-Storage.news that it does not currently have plans to launch its own lithium-ion battery cell production for battery energy storage system (BESS) products, a route being taken by other China-based system integrators. 

Masdar Arlington Energy, Renewable Power Capital and TagEnergy have broken ground on, acquired and financed projects UK battery energy storage system (BESS) projects totalling 162MW of power.

Rimac Energy is deploying its first pilot projects after announcing its entry into the energy storage system (ESS) market one year ago, and we caught up with its head of business development while at the Energy Storage Summit EU in London.