Statkraft and Greenvolt Power have signed a 10-year tolling agreement covering 400MW of BESS across two operating projects in Poland.

A flurry of BESS project news from big-name players in Western Europe in the run-up to the Energy Storage Summit next week, with Neoen, Statkraft, Zenobē and Infranode moving projects forward in Germany, Ireland, the UK and Denmark. Highlights include a 15-year toll between Drax and Zenobē, and multiple 4-hour duration systems.

Statkraft, Kyon Energy and Juniz Energy have progressed BESS projects in Germany, all in all totalling a combined 213MWh of capacity.

Battery energy storage systems (BESS) from several firms helped the energy system recover after the NSL interconnector, which connects the UK and Norway, suddenly stopped exporting power to the UK.

Fluence Energy GmbH, a subsidiary of battery storage system integrator Fluence, will provide solutions for Germany’s largest solar-plus-storage project.

NHOA Energy signed an agreement with Statkraft to supply a battery energy storage systems (BESS) for a 113MWh project in Coylton, Scotland.

Norwegian power company Statkraft has agreed to acquire a 450MW pumped storage hydro project being developed near Loch Ness in Scotland, UK.

System integrator Fluence and Norwegian state-owned power firm Statkraft have partnered on a 4-hour battery energy storage system (BESS) in Ireland, the market’s first.

Renewable energy company Statkraft participated in what it says was the largest dispatch of energy from battery storage to the Ireland grid to-date, on July 14th.

Norway-headquartered renewable energy group Statkraft is not taking the same bullish approach to Germany’s standalone utility-scale battery energy storage market as others, the company’s head of wind & solar Germany Clause Urbanke told Energy-Storage.news.