The first half of the year saw mixed results among China’s leading ESS suppliers, though generally the industry is still performing strongly, writes PV Tech ESS analyst Charlotte Gisbourne. 

Power generator LEAG and its turnkey BESS construction partner HyperStrong have started building a 400MW/1,600MWh project in Germany, while Sunotec has done the same on a 441MWh project. 

EV manufacturer Ola Electric has entered India’s utility-scale battery storage market with a vertically integrated business model.

System integrator Alfen and battery company CATL have struck a 5GWh partnership for sodium-ion BESS deployments in Europe.

There’s been a flurry of project completions across Europe this past week, with projects completed in Germany, Estonia, Belgium, Denmark and Bulgaria by RheinEnergie/SMA, BSP, BStor, European Energy and Sunotec respectively, totalling nearly 700MWh of capacity.

Intellectual property litigation attorney Isaku Begert of Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP looks at energy storage system patent risks and the steps that can be taken to mitigate them.

FlexGen has acquired CES, which has to date commissioned more than 15GWh of battery energy storage system (BESS) projects.  

The early life of a battery storage asset sets the stage for a lifetime of operational success, writes Cedric Brehaut, chief product officer at PowerUp.

Western system integrators face a continual ‘squeeze’ in where they add value in BESS and may struggle to keep up with the speed of technology innovation from China, Rept’s Andy Tang said in a video interview with Energy-Storage.news recently.

Commissioning is often an underestimated final step in the hard work it takes to bring a BESS project online, writes Lynn Appollis-Laurent of Camelot Energy.