Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) specialist The Mobility House is moving into large-scale BESS project development and optimisation in Germany, starting with a 750MW project.

A double-header of Netherlands news, with SemperPower and Corre Energy planning a 640MWh BESS at the latter’s compressed air energy storage (CAES) site and Powerfield commissioning the country’s largest co-located project.

Construction is underway on Cero Generation’s first solar and storage project in the UK, Larks Green, while its second one will differ substantially on the size of the grid connection.

The process of developing energy storage projects in Germany is about to get longer and there is a risk it grinds to a halt as the market matures and regulations are made, developer BayWa r.e. told Energy-Storage.news.

A renewables-only subsidiary of utility Eneco and developer Energisto have revealed a battery energy storage system (BESS) joint venture in Germany, which expects construction permits for up to 400MWh of projects this year.

Developer Ethical Power has received planning consent for a 65MW solar-plus-storage project near Christchurch, New Zealand.

US-based independent power producer (IPP) NextEra and utility Entergy have revealed a five-year, 4.5GW development pipeline of solar and storage projects.

Developer Arevia Power has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for a large solar-plus-storage project in Nevada, US, with local utility NV Energy.

Developer and EPC Eco Stor will start building another 103.5MW/238MWh BESS project in Germany in November this year.

The industry still has a lot of work to do on urban project development and navigating local permitting challenges, a senior executive of US developer-IPP RWE Clean Energy told Energy-Storage.news.