Foresight Group has acquired the 100MW/400MWh Nivala BESS via its Foresight Energy Infrastructure Partners II (FEIP II) fund.

Finland is the Nordic region’s most-talked-about market for the moment, with project deals and other battery storage development activity from local and international players.  

Fu-Gen has sold a 100MW ready-to-build battery storage project in Finland to Nala Renewables, extending their Nordic BESS pipeline to 275MW.

In this news roundup, Metlen inaugurates a 75MWh BESS in Italy, PNE and Enercon develop a wind and storage project in Germany, and Mirova invests €65 million in Nordic BESS from Ingrid Capacity.

A roundup of large-scale BESS news from in and around the Nordic region, with Sweden-based Flower building a project in Germany, Volvo launching one in Sweden and Delta Capacity securing a toll for one in Finland. 

A roundup of large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects being financed, acquired or contracted in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Finland and Romania. 

Delta Capacity has brought online the Nordic region’s biggest project to date and has acquired another project that would be almost twice the size.

US sodium-ion (Na-ion) battery startup Alsym Energy and consulting organisation for the mining and energy sectors, Erity, have signed a 9GWh strategic relationship agreement (SRA) for global mining use-cases.

Activity in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) continues to accelerate, with two separate c.600MWh projects completed in Bulgaria by Solarpro & CATL and Sunotec and Sungrow, plus around 800MWh of capacity progressed across Romania, Estonia, Lithuania, and Finland.

Rolls-Royce and Fluence have secured BESS orders in Latvia and Poland, respectively, while CATL has partnered with Merus Power for 3GWh of deployments across Northern Europe.