Battery storage is the technology best suited to handling the power fluctuations that AI training loads can create at data centres, ESN Premium has heard.

Trade association Energy Storage Europe (ESE) has welcomed proposed reforms to European Union (EU) grid connection and permitting processes.

There is a “healthy pipeline of projects in development” across Europe’s energy storage sector, but the technologies are as yet “significantly underutilised” below their potential.

New wholesale electricity market rules have been introduced in Ireland, designed to allow battery storage assets to participate directly.

The capacity of virtual power plants in North America has reached 37.5GW, a 13.7% year-on-year growth, according to Wood Mackenzie.

Projects supported by the UK government’s long-duration energy storage (LDES) cap-and-floor could significantly dampen price spreads but also affect non-LDES flexibility assets.

Statera Energy has begun operating the biggest BESS project in the UK, connected to a National Grid substation that formerly supported two coal power plants.

Now is the moment for long-duration energy storage to become a key pillar of the energy transition, writes LDES Council CEO Julia Souder.

Update 27 June 2025: Trianel and Luxcara responded to Energy-Storage.news’ enquiries below regarding the project timelines and the Battery Park’s planned capacities.

Utility EWII has connected a 30MW/43MWh BESS unit to the grid on the island of Bornholm in Denmark, which has the potential to act as an emergency backup in case a nearby interconnector to Sweden fails.