Energy storage system (ESS) executives from Northvolt and Fluence discussed the battery and battery storage manufacturing ecosystem in Europe in separate interviews whilst at the Energy Storage Summit Central Eastern Europe (CEE) recently.
Battery energy storage systems (BESS) in the Nordics are seeing “extremely attractive revenues”, Finland-based optimiser Capalo AI said, as developers SENS and Ilmatar announced 70MW of projects in Sweden.
Solar Module Super League (SMSL) member JinkoSolar is supplying large-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) to customers in Nigeria and Japan, totalling 20MWh of combined capacity.
Northvolt intends to use its vertical European supply chain to differentiate itself in a ‘fiercely competitive’ energy storage market, executives said.
Developer Banks Renewables has unveiled plans for a 200MW/400MWh BESS in Scotland, the same week its parent company agreed to sell it to investor Brookfield.
The Chile arm of global energy firm AES Corporation is looking to build another large co-located battery energy storage system (BESS), this time with a capacity of 2,710MWh.
Norwegian firms Morrow Batteries and Eldrift have announced a non-binding offtake agreement for 1.5GWh of Morrow’s lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries.
