Manoa Energy and HD Renewable Energy Japan have begun commercial operation of a 50MW/104MWh battery storage project in Hokkaido, Japan.

We catch up with the CFO and co-founder of German BESS own-operate platform Terra One, after its €150 million (US$173 million) mezzanine financing to scale up in Europe’s hottest energy storage market.

Asset manager MEAG and a subsidiary of inverter specialist SMA have partnered to deploy a 130MW/354MWh BESS in Germany, their second together and one which will deploy ‘next-generation’ inverters.

Renalfa IPP has secured a €315 million (US$367 million) financing package from an EBRD-led consortium to support a 1.6GW renewables, 3.3GWh BESS rollout in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and North Macedonia.

Asset manager MEAG has acquired a 92.5MW/231MWh BESS in Germany, fully merchant-financed, which optimiser Entrix will trade in the electricity market.

Regional electric utility companies in Japan are playing key roles in the delivery of battery energy storage system (BESS) resources.

Alper Peker and Dominic Multerer of Camopo explain how flexibility is the key to long-term profitability for hybrid renewables-plus-storage power plants.

Energy storage owner-operator BW ESS and Zelos Energy Developments have announced a 1.5GW pipeline of BESS projects in Germany, aiming for ready-to-build (RTB) status over the next two years. 

Industry experts discussed the varying approaches in Europe to procuring energy storage via long-term support schemes on Day One of Solar Media’s Energy Storage Summit 2025 in London, which kicked off today (18 February).