Swiss Life Asset Managers has acquired a 50% stake in BCP Battery Holding, a company with several utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) developments in Germany.

German battery energy storage system (BESS) project developer Tricera Energy has built its business using ‘second use’ battery modules from the country’s automotive sector, its COO told Energy-Storage.news.

Global system integrator Fluence increased its revenues for the first three months of 2022, its second quarter, 249% to US$343 million.

Power company AES Bulgaria has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Bulgarian ministry of energy to assist the country in its decarbonisation transition.

Developer Open Road Renewables has proposed a battery energy storage system (BESS) in Indiana which will total 131MW/524MW of storage, the company’s President exclusively told Energy-storage.news.

Construction work has started on a 30MWh pumped hydro storage project in Western Australia.

Solar PV inverter manufacturer Sungrow has signed a 253MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) contract with Doral Renewable Energy Resources Group, its third in Israel this year.

A total of 1,613MW/4,727MWh of energy storage was installed in the US in the last quarter of 2021 according to Wood Mackenzie, which says annual residential storage installations will hit 2GW by 2026.

Burns & McDonnell and Recurrent Energy give their takes on the key successes and challenges of the past year in energy storage.

Updated 18 June 2021: Microgrids have been installed across 26 Maldivian islands using 3.2MWh of battery storage systems with one shared SCADA system.