IPPs Greenvolt and European Energy have finalised financial deals for solar-plus-storage projects in Denmark and Latvia, while Olana and Energix have enlisted optimisers for BESS projects in Lithuania and Poland, respectively.

Chinese lithium-ion OEM Hithium and system integrator BOS Power have signed a supply agreement for 3GWh of BESS deployments in the Nordic region.

Utility EWII has connected a 30MW/43MWh BESS unit to the grid on the island of Bornholm in Denmark, which has the potential to act as an emergency backup in case a nearby interconnector to Sweden fails.

IPP Eurowind Energy will install a 45MWh BESS at a wind and solar plant in Skive, Denmark, one of the country’s largest.

Technology firm Hyme Energy and potential customer Arla Foods are seeking EU funding for a 200MW thermal energy storage system project, which they claim is the largest in the world.

BESS developer and operator Dais Energy will reach ready-to-build (RTB) status on 190MW of a 250MW Denmark project portfolio in the coming months, CEO Daniel Connor told Energy-Storage.news.

News from the Nordics and the Baltics, with BESS projects launched in Sweden, Denmark and Latvia by Centrica, Nordic Solar and Niam Infrastructure and Evecon.

While Norway once aimed to be the ‘battery of Europe’ it has since been overtaken other Nordic countries Sweden and Finland for BESS deployments. Research firm LCP Delta’s Jon Ferris explores the region’s energy storage market dynamics in this long-form article.  

Hyme Energy has inaugurated a molten hydroxide salt energy storage project in Denmark, the first such deployment in the world, it claimed.

Developer Better Energy is deploying its first battery energy storage system (BESS), a 10MW/12MWh system, at one of its solar PV plants in Denmark.