UK market’s shifting dynamics see listed fund Gore Street’s shareholders take key vote while CIP and BW ESS progress 4-hour duration battery storage assets at significant scale.

BESS operators should be planning their projects against different locational price and charging regimes of the future rather than solely against the current revenue opportunities.

Elliot Squire, senior asset manager for Varco Energy, discusses current and future trends in battery storage.

UK energy industry regulator Ofgem said it is minded to approve the introduction of a financial commitment for BESS in an attempt to reduce the oversupply of the projects awaiting a grid connection.

UAE state-owned renewables company Masdar has partnered with Germany’s Luxcara for battery storage and wind energy projects.

We hear from Angus Gordon Lennox, chair of the Gore Street Energy Storage Fund (GSF), which faces a shareholder vote next week on its future. 

This edition of news in brief brings you BESS news from the UK market featuring Field, Eelpower and EDF, as reported by our colleagues at Solar Power Portal.

A roundup of some of the best user-posted views, analysis and reveals from across the energy storage community in the past week.

The UK government has launched a new grant funding programme for energy storage technologies that can provide inter-day and seasonal energy shifting applications.

NextEnergy UK has acquired a 107MW/151MWh portfolio of standalone battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in the UK.