Eesti Energi has completed the procurement for its 26.5MW/51MWh BESS, the first of that scale in Estonia, with LG Energy Solution among the successful parties.
Battery energy storage system (BESS) and EV solutions firm Zenobē Energy has started construction on a 300MW/600MWh project in Scotland, after securing project financing.
UK-headquartered Zenobē Energy attracted the most venture capital (VC) funding of any company in the energy storage industry during 2023, as found by Mercom Capital.
A new grid-scale battery storage development platform has launched in Australia with Oliver Yates, former CEO of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), as its chairman.
Arizona utilities Tucson Electric Power (TEP) and UniSource Energy have launched a request for proposals (RFP) for 825MW of ‘firm power’, primarily energy storage, alongside 625MW of renewables.
EV and BESS company BYD will supply its product for a project from Grenergy in Chile which has been claimed as the largest energy storage project in the world.
European lithium-ion battery developer and manufacturer Northvolt has secured a US$5 billion (€4.6 billion) non-recourse project financing package from various EU and Nordic institutions for its manufacturing and recycling plants.
This Friday Briefing looks at the IEA’s recognition that long-duration energy storage will be essential to global decarbonisation and asks what it might take for that message to translate into immediate action.
