European Investment Bank has committed €108 million to upgrades at a pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) project in Extremadura, Spain.

With over 9GWh of operational grid-scale BESS (battery energy storage system) capacity in the UK – and a strong pipeline – it’s worth identifying the regional hotspots and how the landscape may evolve in the future. 

German companies Energieversorgung Beckum (evb), Westenergie and E.ON Energy Solutions (ESY) have launched construction on a 2.75-hour BESS project in Beckum, Germany, and offered local citizens a chance to invest in it.

UK regulator Ofgem has launched a cap and floor investment support scheme to unlock funding for new Long Duration Electricity Storage (LDES).

Financial close was achieved on a 270MWh battery storage project in Belgium by removing as much asset and revenue risk as possible, Energy-Storage.news has heard.

Gilkes Energy has been awarded planning consent for its Earba Pumped Storage Hydro (PSH) scheme.

A 10MW/10MWh battery storage system at a wind park in the Netherlands has been relocated to a new site as part of a repowering project.

The UK saw 1,590MW/3,179MWh of grid-scale BESS projects approved last month, bringing the total approved projects to around 55.4GW/117GWh.

The system integration arm of SMA Solar and utility RheinEnergie have partnered to deploy BESS projects in Germany, with construction about to launch on the first.

Sharon Santhosh, energy storage applications engineer at Wärtsilä, talks all things BESS noise, including enclosure design, the various mitigating measures engineers can implement, and implications of BESS technology developments further down the line.