Details on the wind-down of US-based BESS firm American Energy Storage Innovations (AESI) have come out, while battery recycler Li-Cycle has filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy and been ordered to cease stock market trading.

A financial advisor has been appointed to manage US energy storage system integrator Powin, with the company “navigating a period of significant financial challenge”.

Battery energy storage system (BESS) integrator and technology provider Powin is at risk of shutting down its business within weeks.

System integrator Intilion will provide 81MWh of its BESS technology for a project in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany.

Power generation firm Hidroelectrica has enlisted local firms Prime Batteries Technology and Enevo to deploy a large-scale BESS project in Romania.

State-owned utility and power generator Eesti Energia has completed and put into commercial operation the first large-scale BESS in Estonia.

Finnish marine and power technology firm Wärtsilä has ended an 18-month long strategic review of its Energy Storage and Optimisation (ES&O) business, a process which could have led to the firm divesting it.

Juan Ceballos, Trina Storage head of sales for Europe, tells ESN Premium how one of solar’s big players aims to become a major presence in energy storage.

IPP Eurowind Energy will install a 45MWh BESS at a wind and solar plant in Skive, Denmark, one of the country’s largest.

As Europe’s BESS industry matures, project owner-operators are taking on more control – and risk – when it comes to procuring technology and services for their projects.