The Gore Street Energy Storage Fund’s results for the first half of its financial year have demonstrated the benefits of its internationalisation strategy, though its net asset value (NAV) per share fell slightly.
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.
The revenue advantage of 2-hour battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Germany versus 1-hour systems is nearly three times higher than it was two years ago, optimisation firm Entrix told Energy-Storage.news after its latest fundraising round.
While the demand for third-party battery energy storage system (BESS) optimisation services looks set to grow substantially, challenges for companies specialised in offering those services remain.
Concern has been raised by the industry about battery storage consistently being overlooked in the UK’s Balancing Mechanism (BM), as the sector’s average revenues plummeted in the first half of 2023.
Firm Frequency Response (FFR) auction prices in the UK have hit their lowest level since 2019 as market saturation begins to take effect, market analytics platform Modo Energy said.
The massive buildout of battery storage in the ERCOT, Texas market and the risk of market saturation was a huge talking point at Energy Storage Summit USA last month.
Developer Available Power is focusing on the ‘distributed play’ of 9.9MW-or-less battery storage opportunities within the area of grid operator ERCOT in Texas, a senior executive told Energy-Storage.news.
