Developer Ilmatar and investor Nuveen Infrastructure have put a 30MW/41MWh BESS in northern Finland into commercial operation.

Investor Return has started construction on a 100MW/200MWh BESS project in the Netherlands, with energy storage technology supplied by system integrator Alfen and power company Vattenfall enlisted as long-term offtaker.

Netherlands-based system integrator Alfen has been revealed as the supplier for a 31.6MW/126.4MWh BESS currently under construction.

A roundup of news from Europe, with Alfen and Sermatec deploying BESS projects in Sweden and Bulgaria and new firm terralyr raising €77 million for project development and operation, starting in Germany.

System integrator Alfen will provide a BESS for co-location with a wind farm in Sweden while aluminium company Hydro has inaugurated a solar and BESS project at one of its extrusion facilities.

In a double whammy of Sweden BESS market news, developer SENS has secured the land for a 40MW project while system integrator Alfen will deploy a 20MW system at a wind farm.

Developer-operator SemperPower has brought online its second large-scale BESS in the Netherlands in the space of a month, a 68MWh system, the largest in the country.

Alfen has reported a 526% year-on-year increase in half-year revenues for its battery energy storage business segment.

Construction has begun on a 30MW battery energy storage system (BESS) in Finland, developed by Glennmont Partners, local IPP Ilmatar, and deployed by ESS firm Alfen.

Netherlands-based Alfen is deploying a two-hour-plus battery energy storage system (BESS) for Centrica Business Solutions in Belgium, the latter’s first outside the UK.