Statkraft’s Rory Griffin writes about the challenges and opportunities encountered in developing Ireland’s first-ever 4-hour duration battery storage project, which is co-located with a wind farm.
Trade association EASE has urged policymakers to recognise the vital role energy storage can play in solving energy sector challenges as European Union (EU) elections take place.
The first 4-hour duration battery storage project to be built in Ireland exemplifies both the challenges and opportunities of the country’s growing and evolving market.
Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks with Warwick Johnston, founder of solar energy consultants Sunwiz, on Australia’s distributed battery storage market dynamics.
Battery energy storage system (BESS) technology could reduce the cost of curtailing wind production in the UK by up to 80%, after over US$1 billion was spent last year, a developer said.
UK-based energy company Statera Energy has secured planning consent for a 290MW/1,740MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) to be developed in Southwest England.
The first energy storage asset built using Wärtsilä’s new Quantum High Energy battery energy storage system (BESS) solution will be a 300MW/600MWh project in Scotland, UK.
BESS developer and operator Plus Power has brought a 185MW/565MWh project online in Hawaii, US, which it claimed is the “most advanced grid-scale BESS in the world”.
Developer Gurin Energy is so convinced of Japan’s energy storage market potential that it is planning a single project equivalent to the country’s entire installed base of lithium-ion battery storage.
A national solar energy industry association has criticised the UK government’s newly-released Battery Strategy for paying “insufficient attention” to opportunities presented by battery energy storage systems (BESS).
