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Details on the wind-down of US-based BESS firm American Energy Storage Innovations (AESI) have come out, while battery recycler Li-Cycle has filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy and been ordered to cease stock market trading.

Envision Energy has inked a strategic partnership with SUN Terra to collaborate on energy storage in Southeast Asia, India and Australia.

Asset manager MEAG has acquired a 92.5MW/231MWh BESS in Germany, fully merchant-financed, which optimiser Entrix will trade in the electricity market.

Rachel Locquet of Clean Horizon explores dynamics shaping Europe’s main markets and how to make the best decisions for maximising revenues.

Battery energy storage system (BESS) developer Giga Storage has closed financing on a 300MW/1,200MWh project in the Netherlands.

Victoria achieved a new BESS discharge and charge record over the weekend, with 693.5MW and -704.8MW, respectively.

Sumitomo Electric has inaugurated a vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) system at a community solar microgrid in southern Japan.

Ingrid Capacity and SEB have broken ground on a large-scale BESS in Finland, while Monsson has acquired a project in Sweden which it will start building in June.

Utility and power generation firm RWE will trade 50MW/100MWh of BESS capacity in Germany from the virtual aggregation platform of startup Terralayr under a five-year agreement.