Tesla made ‘all-time high’ energy storage deployments in the first quarter of this year, ‘leading to record profitability’ for its energy business line, CEO Elon Musk has said this week.

The BESS industry is looking at ways to leverage the 45x tax credit for domestic cell manufacturing in the US, with the domestic content investment tax credit (ITC) bonus still unclear.

This UK edition of news in brief features project news from RWE, Quinbrook, E.On, TagEnergy and Harmony Energy.

A roundup of energy storage news announcements from Energy Vault, Mitsubishi Power Americas and Tesla.

Battery energy storage system (BESS) project developer Lion Storage is planning a 364MW/1,457MWh project in the Netherlands for operation in two years’ time.

Tesla’s energy storage and generation revenues have tripled since 2020, largely driven by deployments of Megapack battery storage systems.

Developer and operator Strata Clean Energy has started construction on its 255MW/1,020MWh Scatter Wash BESS project in Arizona, US.

BloombergNEF has launched its Energy Storage Tier 1 list of providers, noting growth in new players from the China market.

The increasing cost-competitiveness of LFP battery cells has made first life batteries more attractive than second life ones, Finland-based BESS solutions firm Cactos told Energy-Storage.news after a €26 million (US$28.5 million) fundraise.

Huawei and BYD were among the five largest battery energy storage system (BESS) integrators globally last year, with the Chinese market going through a ‘price war’ of competition, according to research from Wood Mackenzie.