Vanadium flow batteries could be a workable alternative to lithium-ion for a growing number of grid-scale energy storage use cases, say Matt Harper and Joe Worthington from Invinity Energy Systems.
Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) is seeking regulatory approval of two Energy Storage Agreements and a Certificate of Convenience and Necessity covering 350MW of energy storage capacity across three projects.
Developer and optimiser Ingrid Capacity and investor BW ESS have commissioned a 211MW/211MWh BESS portfolio in Sweden, the largest in the Nordics, they claimed.
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.
