This edition of news in brief focuses on energy storage technologies that are emerging or on the path to commercialisation.

System integrator Powin contributes to the latest of our Year in Review series, after a year in which it expanded into Europe and launched a new BESS product.

Finnish telecoms firm Elisa will manage the charging activity of a 100MWh ‘Sand Battery’ project, optimising its activity in the country’s electricity reserve market.

Private equity firm Partners Group has invested in ‘green flexibility’, a BESS platform in Germany, with an initial equity commitment of €400 million.

Hitachi Energy was ‘looking for a long time’ to add power conversion architecture to its offerings before its acquisition of Eks Energy (EKS), ESN Premium has heard.

Executives from investor Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners discussed its three BESS projects in Scotland totalling 1.5GW/3GWh which have all now reached FID, the largest BESS in Europe to do so.

Our Year in Review Q&A series continues as we speak with Andrew Gilligan, senior director for commercial strategy at Fluence.

System integrator Fluence will provide 200MW/400MWh of BESS for dependent power producer (IPP) DTEK’s projects in Ukraine.

Energy Storage Award 2024 winner, Semih Oztreves, head of network infrastructure at  BESS developer-investor Zenobē Energy, takes part in our annual Q&A series.

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed the EZBattery Model, a simulation tool for predicting the performance of redox flow batteries.