Activity in Italy’s grid-scale market is accelerating, with Sonnedix and the Strioga Family Foundation acquiring projects totalling over 1GWh combined, while BNZ and RWE have ordered BESS from Sungrow and LONGi respectively totalling 540MWh.

Power firm EnBW is building a 100MWh BESS in Germany for completion this year (a year later than planned) while BESS platform Noveria Energy has signed a construction agreement with TSO TenneT for a 1GWh project for 2028 operations.

BESS platform Ingrid Capacity has received construction permits for two projects in Sweden’s SE4 electricity region which it said could start construction as early as this year.

Renewables developer and IPP Storm has secured project finance for two large-scale BESS projects in Ruien and Langerlo, Belgium.

Utility and power firm LEAG has partnered with Chinese system integrator HyperStrong for a 400MW/1,600MWh BESS in Saxony, Germany.

Following the recent notification, the Rajasthan government will develop 500MW/2,000MWh of standalone battery energy storage systems (BESS) with a four-hour single-cycle configuration and extended operational life. 

Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), the main electricity company in Sri Lanka, has issued an RFP for large-scale BESS.

Infrastructure investor I4B and utility Luminus have closed the financing and launched construction on a 150MW/600MWh BESS project in Belgium.

A c.500MWh BESS project in Bulgaria has been inaugurated, claimed as the largest in the European Union (EU).

We caught up with the president of OCI Energy, a developer-operator with a 4-hour BESS in Texas, about the longer duration, long-term project ownership and why the current US-China tariffs create a huge challenge for procurement.