A fire broke out at an under-construction BESS project in Essex, England, on 19 February and was brought under control and then handed back to site management a day later.
Commercial operation has started on the 100MW/331MWh Bramley battery energy storage system (BESS), a project in the UK deployed by owner-operator BW ESS, developer Penso Power and BESS provider Sungrow.
Despite a 12% year-on-year fall in the capacity of newly submitted planning applications in 2024, there is still a strong interest in the UK energy storage market as a whole.
“To toll or not to toll seems to be the question. Rather the question you should be asking is with whom and how much,” a panellist at the Energy Storage Summit EU in London said today (19 February).
“We need to allow the technology to show us what the most cost effective solution for 10-20-hour duration energy storage is”, managing director of Adaptogen Capital James Mills says.
Invinity Energy Systems and Frontier Power have partnered to deploy vanadium flow batteries under the UK Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) procurement process.
“Short duration flexibility has a massive role to play in reducing the costs of the Great British energy system, saving £10 billion a year by 2050,” Duncan Stone said this morning at the Energy Storage Summit 2025 in the UK.
Investor Macquarie’s storage platform Eku Energy’s market entry and strategy speaks to the broader emergence of storage as an infrastructure asset, which its CEO discussed with us, also giving his views on BESS capex and procurement.
