Swiss investment fund and project development vehicle MW Storage has contracted Fluence to supply and integrate a 20MW battery storage asset in Finland.
Startup Capalo AI will optimise a Finland BESS project owned by investor Ardian while Merus Power, which is providing the BESS for that project, has received a separate order from Switzerland’s Alpiq for a similarly sized one.
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.
Developers SENS and Callio have revealed a hybrid project in Finland which could combine a battery energy storage system (BESS), pumped hydro energy storage and solar PV technology.
Paper product company Arctic Paper has tied up with developer S.E.R to deploy BESS projects for ancillary services totalling 24MW at two of its factories in Sweden, with plans to do something similar in Poland.
BESS route-to-market (RTM) and optimisation firms in the UK are increasingly looking at a wider variety of contracting mechanisms beyond the revenue-share or ‘merchant’ model, developer-operator Eku Energy told Energy-Storage.news.
