We heard from system integrator, developer and EPC delegates at the Energy Storage Summit EU in London last month about the implications of falling BESS prices.

A roundup of battery storage news in the UK, with projects from Centrica, Pulse Clean Energy, Habitat Energy and Gore Street, as the country’s operational capacity reaches over 3GW.

Developer Pulse Clean Energy has secured a three-year £175 million (US$215 million) credit facility with a number of banks to go towards its pipeline of battery storage projects in the UK.

Varta Storage, the energy storage division of consumer, automotive and industrial battery manufacturer Varta, is poised to enter the UK and Ireland residential battery markets through a new exclusive deal with Waxman Energy, as ‎global storage head Gordon Clements told our sister site Solar Power Portal the UK is “the next market that will start to open up” for the technology.