Investor EQT Infrastructure has acquired UK clean energy and battery storage developer-operator Statera, the latest in a flurry of deals in the UK market.

California-based Element Energy has raised US$111 million of equity and debt for its proprietary battery management system (BMS) for first and second life battery storage.

Switzerland-based institutional investment group SUSI Partners has entered a development deal for two large-scale solar-plus-storage hybrid power plants in Chile.

Lithium-ion battery manufacturer Hithium will provide 55MWh of battery products for a solar-plus-storage project being built by EPC firm SolarPro in Bulgaria.

Developer Kyon Energy has claimed the largest approved BESS in Europe for a 275MWh project in Germany, just as regulators extend grid fee exemptions for energy storage by three years to 2029.

Germany-based EV charging and BESS integrator ADS-TEC has installed eight units comprising a 20MW battery energy storage system (BESS) in Sweden.

This edition of our news in brief focuses on activities in the long-duration energy storage space.

Developer Altea Green Power has started building four battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in Italy totalling 1GW of capacity.

Developer Plus Power’s recent financing for BESS projects in Arizona and Texas shows it “driving energy storage into the mainstream of capital markets”, executive chairman Brandon Keefe told Energy-Storage.news.

Renewable energy and energy storage developer Akaysha Energy will soon begin construction on a 150MW/300MWh battery storage project in Queensland, Australia.