Trump’s dampening effect on US investor sentiment could lead to a flight to quality while tariffs will cause a surge in orders this year, writes Tao Kong, managing partner of developer Luminous Energy.

The Poland arm of UK-headquartered developer Harmony Energy has sold a 200MW/400MWh BESS project to EDF Renewables Polska.

Renewco Power and Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure will develop and build a pipeline of BESS projects in Spain.

Sweden-headquartered BESS developer-operator Ingrid Capacity will build a 70MW/140MWh project in Finland, which it claimed will be the largest in the country.

The US development arm of Spain’s Ignis has submitted an application with the California Energy Commission (CEC) to develop a 350MWh+ battery storage facility in Alameda County under the regulatory body’s Opt-In Certification Programme. 

A roundup of recent BESS development planning consent news in the Great Britain (GB) market this week, from the pages of our sister site Solar Power Portal.

BESS developer-operator S4 Energy has put a 4-hour duration project online in the Netherlands, the first in the country to become operational.

Although last year saw a dip in installations and projects submitted for planning, the BESS market in the UK continues to steam ahead with over 8GWh online and nearly 20GWh being built.

Developers Fidra Energy and Innova have secured planning consent for two large-scale BESS projects in the UK, which together total 2,425MW/5,150MWh of energy storage capacity.

Utility Eneco will optimise a BESS project in the Netherlands that, at 31.6MW/126.4MWh, will be the country’s largest when it comes online before the end of the year.