Liquid air energy storage firm Highview Power has raised £300 million (US$384 million) from the UK Infrastructure Bank and utility Centrica to immediately start building its first large-scale project.
TCC Group Holdings, the majority owner of New HOrizons Ahead (NHOA), intends to increase its holding and take the company private, delisting it from the Euronext Paris exchange.
BHE Renewables (BHER) has secured Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) with California community electricity provider Clean Power Alliance (CPA) relating to two of the developer’s hybrid solar-plus-storage projects in Kern County, California.
Norway-headquartered renewable energy company Scatec will add 28.6MW of solar PV and 19.2MWh of battery energy storage systems (BESS) to projects in Cameroon, via a local subsidiary.
We hear from consultancy AFRY about how energy storage can reduce market risks for CfD-winning projects in the UK, now and in future, as Ørsted launches a BESS at a major wind farm project with a CfD.
Utility DTE Energy has begun constructing a battery energy storage system (BESS) project at the site of a decommissioned coal power plant in its Michigan, US, service area.
US-based independent power producer (IPP) NextEra and utility Entergy have revealed a five-year, 4.5GW development pipeline of solar and storage projects.
Telecoms specialist Elisa is deploying battery and PV systems at base towers in Finland, which will “implement virtual power plant (VPP) optimisation of locally produced solar energy.”
A double-header of big news from Germany, with construction starting on a ‘Grid Booster’ BESS from TransnetBW and Fluence and the EU putting €58 million towards a project that will combine green hydrogen and iron flow battery storage at scale.
Editor Andy Colthorpe speaks with Yann Brandt, chief commercial officer at FlexGen, a solar industry veteran who saw the rising potential of the energy storage industry and jumped on board.
