Automotive OEM Jaguar Land Rover and Wykes Engineering have deployed a 2.5MWh second life battery energy storage system (BESS) using EV batteries, and aims to expand it to 7.5MWh by the end of 2023.

Alex Thornton, operations director at Harmony Energy, gives us a deep dive into Pillswood, the biggest battery storage project in Europe.

A recent report by UK Electricity Networks Commissioner Nick Winser laid out how to halve the time needed to build up the grid infrastructure for net zero.

SSE Renewables has broken ground on its 150MW/300MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in West Yorkshire, England, UK.

While the demand for third-party battery energy storage system (BESS) optimisation services looks set to grow substantially, challenges for companies specialised in offering those services remain.

The early numbers on the benefits of the Energy Superhub Oxford’s combination of lithium-ion and vanadium flow batteries are “encouraging”, project owner EDF Renewables told Energy-Storage.news in an interview one year one from its launch.

Concern has been raised by the industry about battery storage consistently being overlooked in the UK’s Balancing Mechanism (BM), as the sector’s average revenues plummeted in the first half of 2023.

Japanese conglomerate Marubeni has acquired a 25MW wind and energy storage project in Wales, UK, from developer RES.

Drax Group has secured development consent for a 600MW underground pumped storage hydro (PSH) plant in Scotland, UK.

Battery energy storage system (BESS) developer Field has received a £200 million (US$257.96 million) investment from DIF Capital Partners.