Dutch TSO TenneT has signed a contract with a developer for a large-scale BESS which will help to relieve grid congestion, possibly enabling the quicker deployment of renewables in the Netherlands.

We hear from consultancy AFRY about how energy storage can reduce market risks for CfD-winning projects in the UK, now and in future, as Ørsted launches a BESS at a major wind farm project with a CfD.

Global shares of renewable energy are increasing, while at the same time data centres become an ever-more important part of our daily lives. Emiliano Cevenini of Vertiv looks at some ways in which renewable energy can combine with UPS and energy storage systems at data centres to offer new possibilities for energy and environmental controls.

Energy storage provider AES Energy Storage has signed a multi-year agreement for Korean battery supplier LG Chem to provide 1GWh of lithium-ion battery capacity for AES’s energy storage systems, which a US analyst has said could take around seven to eight years to install and be worth an estimated US$300 million.