While the demand for third-party battery energy storage system (BESS) optimisation services looks set to grow substantially, challenges for companies specialised in offering those services remain.

The early numbers on the benefits of the Energy Superhub Oxford’s combination of lithium-ion and vanadium flow batteries are “encouraging”, project owner EDF Renewables told Energy-Storage.news in an interview one year one from its launch.

US power marketer Gridmatic has launched a US$50 million fund it will put towards managing third-party battery storage assets, including covering collateral requirements, it told Energy-Storage.news.

Around 16GW of battery energy storage system (BESS) projects got preliminary registration for this year’s capacity market auction in Poland, developer Hynfra told Energy-Storage.news.

Construction is set to begin on a battery storage project in Japan through JV involving CATL with utility Shikoku Electric Power.

Idemitsu Kosan, Japan’s biggest petroleum producer, has launched an energy storage business and announced its first lithium battery project.

We continue our summer season look back at the first half of this year with another chance to watch the sponsored webinars Energy-Storage.news has been proud to bring you.

NGK Insulators will supply a sodium-sulfur (NAS) battery storage system to a project for utility Sala Energy in Japan’s Shizuoka Prefecture.

With the rise of AI-driven solutions for optimisation of trading using battery energy storage system (BESS) assets, Prudence Heck and Andrew Young of Spearmint Energy consider strategies and risks.

More similarities exist between the business models of trading energy from batteries and other, more ‘traditional’ types of asset than many people realise.