The UK arm of EDF Renewables yesterday (20 August) announced that it will bring over 300MW of battery energy storage system (BESS) projects online over the next 12 months in the country.

Rounding up a busy week’s worth of energy storage activity from the UK market, as reported by our colleagues at Solar Power Portal.

The energy storage market in Ireland continues to show strong growth potential. While still in the early stages of site construction, new additions are now providing a strong uptick in activity. 

The UK and Ireland’s energy storage pipeline is rapidly growing, with co-located solar PV and storage comprising around 20% of planned capacity, writes Mollie McCorkindale of Solar Media Market Research.

The Republic of Ireland’s environment minister Eamon Ryan was on hand last week as a 75MW/150MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) was officially inaugurated.

Solar Media Market Research analyst Mollie McCorkindale offers insight into the market’s progress in 2022, another record-breaking year.

We continue looking back over 2022’s top content on Energy-Storage.news with our pick of the Guest Blogs published in the past 12 months.

The UK is undoubtedly one of the hottest global markets for battery storage today and a considerable pipeline of projects exists. Analyst Mollie McCorkindale from Solar Media Market Research explains some of the methodologies to filter out the top 10 projects in development.

The UK reached a gigawatt of battery storage deployments in the second quarter of 2020 and the industry has 14.9GW in its development pipeline including 1.8GW of ready-to-build projects and 6.9GW with planning approvals in place.

There are 1.3GW of read-to-build battery storage projects in the UK, with the majority between 30MW and 49.9MW power output per project, according to new analysis from Solar Media Market Research.