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Some of the project team at the Brigg site. Image: Centrica.

Centrica starts construction of 100MWh UK BESS project at decommissioned gas power plant site

September 28, 2022
Centrica Business Solutions will convert a decommissioned gas-fired power station in England into a 100MWh battery storage facility.
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Batteries as an infrastructure asset class: A new paradigm

July 12, 2021
Battery storage is flexible, remarkable — and investable — but you need to know what you’re doing and know where the market opportunities and limits lie. Renewable and clean energy financier Laurent Segalen from Megawatt-X explains some of the things he’s seen as batteries have become an infrastructure asset in their own right.
Former UK energy minister Amber Rudd (centre), on a 2015 visit to the country's first large-scale battery project, which connected to the grid as a demonstration project in 2014.

VIDEO: UK’s net-zero ambitions and the role of energy storage

May 31, 2021
It is increasingly becoming recognised that energy storage is crucial in helping the UK to meet its targets for reducing emissions and ensuring reliability of the energy system. In this panel discussion from the Energy Storage Summit 2021 held earlier this year, experts and stakeholders discuss what sort of changes might need to happen to make that contribution possible.
Rendering of a 565MWh three-hour duration standalone BESS on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, selected through a Hawaiian Electric procurement last year. Image: Plus Power.

Approval for 185MW / 565MWh ESS project in Hawaii despite ‘fossil fuel charging’ concerns

May 7, 2021
Approval has been granted — with significant conditions attached — for a large-scale standalone battery storage project designed to help the Hawaiian island of Oahu overcome energy reliability and supply concerns as a coal power plant retires.
A solar and battery project Gannawarra, Victoria, completed in 2018 with some support from ARENA. Image: ARENA.

Coal power station retires to fond farewell as massive battery project steps in to take its place

March 11, 2021
Australian energy retailer EnergyAustralia has said that it will build a 350MW, four-hour standalone battery energy storage system (BESS) project to enable one of its coal-fired power plants to be retired “after decades of faithful service”.
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Total buys 2.2GW of Texas solar projects in development with 600MW of battery storage

February 11, 2021
Global energy major Total has continued its flurry of utility-scale solar acquisitions, picking up a 2.2GW pipeline of assets in Texas.
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Energy storage markets ‘resilient to the pandemic’, says Wärtsilä CEO

January 28, 2021
Wärtsilä Corporation’s CEO has said that “activity in the energy storage market held up well” in 2020 despite a difficult year for the company due to prevailing market conditions around the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Merchant risk in energy storage project financing makes compelling case for traditional players

January 18, 2021
At first glance, renewable power generation has created, in the eyes of traditional industries, an investment nirvana. By understanding how these better-capitalised companies view renewables’ merchant risk, we can identify where future energy storage projects should seek finance partners, says Charles Lesser, a partner at Apricum – The Cleantech Advisory.
Broken Hill solar farm in New South Wales, Australia, which Aware Super made an investment in as it was being built in 2016. Image: AGL Energy.

Australian utility AGL tenders for 850MW batteries by 2024 but will lean on coal for years to come

August 14, 2020
Australian utility AGL is now inviting tenders to procure battery storage which will help it meet climate and sustainability goals – but the company expects to be economically dependent on coal as well as gas for years to come.
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‘Important to explore alternatives’ to lithium-ion, Shell-NREL accelerator says

May 5, 2020
Accelerator selected the maker of an organic flow battery among a group of “startups with the potential to dramatically alter the future global energy landscape”.

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