Utility and power generation company Enel Group and Brenmiller Energy have inaugurated a thermal energy storage system in Italy using the latter’s proprietary bGen technology.

Nidec ASI, the Italy-based industrial solutions division of Japanese conglomerate Nidec Group, has won a contract to deploy 5.4GWh of battery energy storage systems in its home market.

Danish energy company Ørsted will run a feasibility study on the deployment of a 20MW/200MWh energy storage system using Italian startup Energy Dome’s ‘CO2 Battery’ technology.

State-owned electricity company ESB and geoenergy company dCarbonX have signed a JV to explore green hydrogen storage opportunities off the coast of Ireland.

Increasingly, microgrids often lean on battery storage as a key component, replacing or reducing reliance on diesel and other fossil fuels.

Aer Soléir has signed an investment and co-development deal for 510MW of battery storage projects in Italy with Altea Green Power.

Energy Dome, an Italy-based company which has developed a novel CO2-based long-duration energy storage system, has closed an US$11 million bridge funding round.

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.

Italian startup Energy Dome has launched the first demonstrator project of its carbon dioxide-based energy storage solution, a 4MWh system in Sardinia, Italy, while also revealing Series B plans.

Energy conversion equipment specialist Ingeteam will supply a 70MW/340MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in northern Italy for a 2023 delivery date.