The UK is in the middle of a massive overhaul of its queue system for connecting projects to the grid, and BESS is one of the most oversubscribed technologies, leading to a “nervousness” for a lot of projects, law firm Freeths said.

US renewable energy developer, Longroad Energy announced financial close of 111MWdc solar and 85MWac/340MWh storage project Sun Pond in Maricopa County, Arizona 4 December.

Strata Clean Energy announced the completion of the 70MW/280MWh Inland Empire Energy Storage project, located in Rialto, California, 4 December.

AEMO said that new energy storage capacity that has come online will play a key role in grid stability throughout the 2024-25 summer months.

Australian transmission system operator Transgrid has contracted Edify Energy’s 300MWh Riverina and Darlington Point battery energy storage system (BESS) to increase its network capacity in New South Wales by 120MW.

New rules which will reduce grid fees in the Netherlands by providing ‘non-firm agreement’ (NFA) connections as well as time-weighted rates could improve returns and double projected BESS deployments, an analyst has said, though a project owner was less openly optimistic about it.

For many years now, Spain has been one of the leading European markets for solar PV but has yet to meet the same outcome for energy storage. Sungrow has high expectations for this to happen in the coming years.

UK firm G2 Energy is moving into full BESS wrapped EPC services under its new owner Mitie, having focused on a grid connections and balance-of-plant (BOP) engineering services prior to its predecessor company’s bankruptcy last year, CEO Kelvin Ruck said.

The implications of larger projects, revenue streams of projects, and grid connection issues were discussed on a panel at the ESS EU event in London.

We catch up with SemperPower, developer and owner of the two largest BESS projects in the Netherlands, discussing its commercial model, challenges, grid, regulations and more.