We hear from Chris Wickins, technical director at UK battery storage developer-operator Field about how grid interconnection and market mechanisms are developing in Europe’s most advanced energy storage market.

A 100MW battery storage project in the UK connected to National Grid’s transmission network has gone online, developed by Pacific Green on the former site of a coal plant.

National Grid is set to accelerate the connection of up to 10GW of battery energy storage projects in England and Wales.

A recent report by UK Electricity Networks Commissioner Nick Winser laid out how to halve the time needed to build up the grid infrastructure for net zero.

Developer Key Capture Energy has inaugurated a 20MW/45.6MWh battery energy storage system (BESS), its largest one in New York to-date.

Invinity Energy Systems will deploy a partially grant-funded 7MW/30MWh vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) system in the UK as the company scales up its project sizes.

A battery storage system in the UK has begun delivery of reactive power services, claimed as a world first contract of its kind.

National Grid Renewables has signed a 140MW power purchase agreement (PPA) with chocolate makers The Hershey Company.

The world’s largest combined lithium-vanadium battery energy storage system (BESS), the Energy Superhub Oxford (ESO), will soon start fully trading in the UK’s electricity market, showcasing the potential of hybrid assets.

Canada-headquartered renewable energy project developer-owner Amp Energy is to build what it is claiming are Europe’s two largest grid-connected battery storage facilities, each of 400MW / 800MWh.