Drax Group has secured development consent for a 600MW underground pumped storage hydro (PSH) plant in Scotland, UK.

Renewable energy developer TagEnergy has closed a €570 million (US$622 million) green bond for its solar, wind and energy storage pipeline in the UK, Europe and Australia.

Network solutions company Alcemi has been granted planning permission to develop one of Europe’s largest energy storage facilities.

Another edition of news in brief, this time from the UK’s booming large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) market.

UK utility SSE has put £100 million (US$123 million) into its Coire Glas pumped hydro project in Scotland for pre-construction activities, but said that new policy is needed for it go to final investment decision (FID).

Zenobē Energy has started construction of a 300MW/600MWh battery energy storage project in Blackhillock, Scotland.

This edition of news in brief from around the world in energy storage comes from our UK colleagues at Solar Power Portal.

Zenobē has begun construction on three battery storage projects in Scotland which will total £750 million (US$892 million) of investment.

Asset manager Foresight Group has invested in a co-located 1.6GWh pumped hydro energy storage and wind project in Scotland.

This edition of news in brief comes from another busy week for our colleagues covering the UK energy transition.