UK utility SSE’s renewable energy arm has started constructing a 320MW/640MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in North Yorkshire. When completed, it will be one of the country’s largest.
Eku Energy has begun its first battery storage project in Japan, while Gore Street Capital has raised funding for the country’s first energy storage-dedicated fund.
The North American arm of Sweden’s Eolus Vind has secured financing and advanced the sales process for its 100MW/400MWh Pome standalone BESS facility located in San Diego County, California.
IPP Tenska has submitted an application with the Washington Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council for the construction and operation of a 200MW/800MWh standalone BESS.
Swiss investment fund and project development vehicle MW Storage has contracted Fluence to supply and integrate a 20MW battery storage asset in Finland.
Trina Storage’s new 10MWh battery storage product is claimed by the company to be the first in the US to include full cell-to-AC system integration from a single vendor.