Global battery energy storage system (BESS) integrator Fluence is setting up a new contract manufacturing facility in Utah to serve the US market.

Renewable energy company Statkraft participated in what it says was the largest dispatch of energy from battery storage to the Ireland grid to-date, on July 14th.

State-owned Irish electric utility ESB has opened a 19MW/38MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Aghada, County Cork, provided by system integrator Fluence. 

Microsoft will be the latest big tech player to use battery storage at data centres which will provide grid flexibility services.

Iberdrola has commissioned a battery storage system in Ireland that will contribute to grid security as more renewables come online.

Mitsubishi Power is entering the European energy storage market with four BESS projects totalling 371MWh for ION Renewables in Ireland.

European battery energy storage deployments are expected to plateau over 2024-27 due to lithium-ion scarcity whilst the continent will need 200GW by 2030 to accommodate additional renewables, according to a new report and webinar.

RWE’s largest battery storage project to date has entered full operations in County Monaghan, Ireland.

With a handful of leading regions deploying grid-scale storage at a faster rate than ever, what sort of impact are these additions having so far on the problems they are intended to solve?

London-listed energy storage investor Gore Street Capital CEO Alex O’Cinneide discussed its fund’s recent expansion outside UK/Ireland and which markets are most of interest, in an interview with Energy-storage.news.