The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has cleared a further 480MW of battery storage capacity for commercial operations during the month of August, according to the system operator’s most recent generator interconnection status (GIS) report published 3 September, 2024.

Developer Kona Energy has been granted consent for the construction and operation of its Smeaton BESS project in Scotland, which will total 228MW/456MWh of energy storage capacity.

IPP Vitis Energy has acquired a 200MW BESS project in the ERCOT, Texas market from developer Black Mountain Energy Storage (BMES).

BESS developer-operator Aquila Clean Energy has started building a 50MW/100MWh project in Germany, its first major one in the country.

We hear from utility Eesti Energia about its 25MW/50MWh BESS project in Estonia, including what it hopes to achieve with the project and why it needed a second procurement to launch the project.

Sports car company Porsche has deployed a 10MWh BESS at its factory in Germany using batteries from its Taycan vehicle line.

Oil and gas major TotalEnergies will build a 100MW/200MWh BESS project from Kyon Energy’s pipeline, its first project after buying the developer.

Developer Harmony Energy is set to build a 100MW/200MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project in France, the country’s largest.

The first phase of the world’s largest sodium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS), in China, has come online.

A 45MW/90MWh BESS project in the Netherlands will be deployed by developer Dispatch, supplied by system integrator Fluence and optimised by utility Eneco.