BESS with up to 4-hour duration helping to meet summer peaks, but long-duration energy storage may be key to managing winter demand.

Cumulative energy storage installations will go beyond the terawatt-hour mark globally before 2030 excluding pumped hydro, with lithium-ion batteries providing most of that capacity, according to new forecasts.

“We think this is the first battery cell which is designed from the end users’ point of view, based on how they want to use it,” EVE Energy’s head of energy storage Steven Chen says.

Gore Street Energy Storage Fund and LS Energy Solutions are partnering on a 200MW/400MWh battery storage project in California.

Alex Thornton, operations director at Harmony Energy, gives us a deep dive into Pillswood, the biggest battery storage project in Europe.

The commercial manager for Balance Power, one of two UK developers to have announced project approvals this week, has questioned whether the market standard 2-hour duration is enough for net zero.

In June, Japanese renewable energy developer Pacifico Energy made the first trades from BESS assets in the country’s power markets.

Europe’s biggest battery storage system earned £2.3 million (US$2.85 million) revenues in Q1 2023.

Last week, two significant milestones in the emergence of a market for large-scale battery storage on the grid were laid in Ontario, Canada.

Western Australia (WA) has said it will provide funding for two battery energy storage system (BESS) projects that will be among the biggest in Australia to date.