It was a busy week of news in the UK’s grid-scale energy storage market last week, with BESS projects put into operation by Eku Energy and Harmony Energy Income Trust (HEIT), and projects in the gigawatt-hour scale announced by ESB and Apatura in Scotland.

The UK arm of EDF Renewables yesterday (20 August) announced that it will bring over 300MW of battery energy storage system (BESS) projects online over the next 12 months in the country.

Developer Exagen has been granted planning approval for a 500MW/1,000MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Leicestershire, UK.

Varco Energy has secured debt financing facilities from bank NatWest to fund its pipeline of battery energy storage systems (BESS) in the UK.

Another edition of news in brief, this time from the UK’s booming large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) market.

This edition of news in brief from around the world in energy storage comes from our UK colleagues at Solar Power Portal.

This edition of news in brief comes from another busy week for our colleagues covering the UK energy transition.

Pacific Green Technologies has appointed principal contractor and supplier for 99.98MW BESS project in Kent, England.

Pivot Power has secured planning permission for two 50MW/100MWh lithium-ion battery storage sites in the UK.

In mid-July, the 100MW / 100MWh Minety battery energy storage system (BESS) was completed in Wiltshire, southern England. Something of a landmark project for the UK and Europe’s battery storage industries, here’s what’s happened so far, as reported by our sister sites Current± and Solar Power Portal.