Some 2.5GW of BESS projects in the UK have won contracts across the T-1 and T-4 capacity markets (CM), announced in a week which also saw project financings worth a combined c.£1 billion, including from Zenobē, Constantine and Quinbrook.
As Europe’s BESS industry matures, project owner-operators are taking on more control – and risk – when it comes to procuring technology and services for their projects.
UK-headquartered BESS investor Gore Street Energy Storage Fund (GSF) and financial services firm Morningstar have provide updates outlining their views on US clean energy tax credits and their future.
A fire broke out at an under-construction BESS project in Essex, England, on 19 February and was brought under control and then handed back to site management a day later.
Commercial operation has started on the 100MW/331MWh Bramley battery energy storage system (BESS), a project in the UK deployed by owner-operator BW ESS, developer Penso Power and BESS provider Sungrow.
Despite a 12% year-on-year fall in the capacity of newly submitted planning applications in 2024, there is still a strong interest in the UK energy storage market as a whole.
“To toll or not to toll seems to be the question. Rather the question you should be asking is with whom and how much,” a panellist at the Energy Storage Summit EU in London said today (19 February).
Industry experts discussed the varying approaches in Europe to procuring energy storage via long-term support schemes on Day One of Solar Media’s Energy Storage Summit 2025 in London, which kicked off today (18 February).
Investor Macquarie’s storage platform Eku Energy’s market entry and strategy speaks to the broader emergence of storage as an infrastructure asset, which its CEO discussed with us, also giving his views on BESS capex and procurement.
A roundup of recent BESS development planning consent news in the Great Britain (GB) market this week, from the pages of our sister site Solar Power Portal.
