The Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) energy storage market is in its infancy but has the potential to leapfrog more developed markets with Poland in a leading position, said executives from Fluence.

Battery energy storage systems (BESS) in the Nordics are seeing “extremely attractive revenues”, Finland-based optimiser Capalo AI said, as developers SENS and Ilmatar announced 70MW of projects in Sweden.

“We think this is the first battery cell which is designed from the end users’ point of view, based on how they want to use it,” EVE Energy’s head of energy storage Steven Chen says.

Developer Origis Energy has started building three solar-plus-storage projects in Mississippi, US, with battery energy storage systems (BESS) totalling 150MW supplied by Mitsubishi Power Americas.

Renewable energy developer BayWa r.e. has got the green light to develop and build a 3-hour duration battery energy storage system (BESS) in the UK, set to come online in 2026.

Solar Module Super League (SMSL) member JinkoSolar is supplying large-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) to customers in Nigeria and Japan, totalling 20MWh of combined capacity.

The energy storage market in Poland is “not an undersupplied one”, has higher financing costs and there is a two-year window in which you need to get in to capitalise on the opportunities, said renewable energy developer and IPP Aquila Clean Energy.

The Australian government has granted approvals to the ‘Melbourne Renewable Energy Hub’ (MREH), a 1,200MW / 2.4GWh two-hour duration battery energy storage system (BESS) in the state of Victoria.

The transferability provisions under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in the US “will unlock billions” in capital for clean energy, said financing firm Evergrow as it claimed the first tax credit transfer transaction.

Four battery energy storage system (BESS) units at a Microsoft data centre in Sweden from Saft have entered operation, while ABB has added ZincFive as a technology supplier for its own UPS solutions.