Boom Power has successfully landed planning permission for a major BESS project in Wales, UK.

UK battery energy storage system (BESS) investment fund Gresham House Energy Storage Fund has announced its half-year results to the end of June 2024.

A coalition of battery storage developers, including Zenobē, Eelpower, Harmony Energy and Field, has penned a letter to the UK government and National Grid Electricity System Operator (National Grid ESO).

It was a busy week of news in the UK’s grid-scale energy storage market last week, with BESS projects put into operation by Eku Energy and Harmony Energy Income Trust (HEIT), and projects in the gigawatt-hour scale announced by ESB and Apatura in Scotland.

Rimac Energy’s SineStack battery energy storage system (BESS) will deliver ‘zero energy capacity fade’ for the first two years of operation.

PV inverter and battery energy storage system (BESS) provider Sungrow has signed an agreement with two major developers to supply BESS systems for an upcoming UK storage project.

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.

Harmony Energy Income Trust (HEIT) expects to receive offers for battery storage assets in its UK portfolio by the end of September.

The UK arm of EDF Renewables yesterday (20 August) announced that it will bring over 300MW of battery energy storage system (BESS) projects online over the next 12 months in the country.

Recent revisions to the UK’s National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) could boost the deployment of battery energy storage systems (BESS), said developer Root-Power’s managing director Neil Brooks.