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One of two large-scale BESS units built and owned by Pacifico Energy which were the first in the country to start wholesale market trading of energy. Image: Pacifico Energy.
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Industry insights: Putting BESS into Japan’s power trading markets with Pacifico Energy

July 5, 2023
In June, Japanese renewable energy developer Pacifico Energy made the first trades from BESS assets in the country’s power markets.
Sonnen home battery installation. The company's regulatory affairs VP Felix Dembski spoke at the event, along with reps from companies including ESS Inc and Portuguese utility EDP. Image: Centrica.

European Energy Storage Coalition launches, welcomed by EC energy commissioner Simson

May 9, 2023
The launch of a new Energy Storage Coalition has been welcomed by European Commission energy commissioner Kadri Simson.
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Energy storage the ‘centrepiece’ of European decarbonisation, energy commissioner says

April 19, 2023
Kadri Simson has described energy storage as vital for the energy transition, yet often “overlooked” in plans and strategies.
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European Commission’s ‘raised ambition’ for energy storage in Electricity Market Design welcomed, with caveats

March 15, 2023
Initial reaction to the European Commission’s proposal on Electricity Market Design reform has been largely positive.
Keeping the lights on while decarbonising will require far more energy storage than the EU market is set up to facilitate, the EC said. Image: NASA.

Energy storage to ‘underpin EU’s secure and decarbonised energy system’ through new strategy

March 14, 2023
European Commission (EC) strategy puts energy storage as cornerstone of a decarbonised and secure energy system for the EU.
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Energy storage given ‘strongest legislative treatment yet’ in leaked European Commission Electricity Market Design

March 13, 2023
European Commission wants to advance the use of energy storage in managing supply and demand of electricity, according to a leaked document.
Inauguration of Ukraine's first grid-scale BESS in 2021. Ukraine joined ENTSO-E as an Observer Member in April 2022. Image: DTEK.

Europe’s transmission grid operators back energy storage in EU Electricity Market Reform consultation

February 20, 2023
Grid operators from across Europe believe energy storage is a vital flexibility resource that should be incentivised.
Anti-war protestors photographed in Glasgow, Scotland, as Russia’s invasion began, February 2022. Image: Credit: Wikimedia user Daniel Naczk.

European energy strategy must reconcile the need for flexibility

January 30, 2023
European policy makers need to strengthen the role of flexibility technologies, write Fluence’s Julian Jansen and Lars Stephan.
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First vanadium redox flow battery installed in Norway

January 25, 2023
The first vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) installation in Norway, a 5kW/25kWh system, was unveiled this week.
"...unprecedented energy crisis we are facing shows that we need to make the electricity market design fit for the future," energy commissioner Kadri Simson (pictured in 2019), said. Image: European Parliament.

EU Electricity Market Design ‘needs to value energy storage and other flexibility options’

January 24, 2023
EU reforms of electricity market should recognise value of flexibility options like energy storage, according to representatives of Fluence.

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