The capabilities of lithium-ion battery storage in providing long-duration energy storage to global energy systems should not be overlooked, write Kotub Uddin and Sam Secher of Envision.
Energy software and consulting group Ascend Analytics CEO Gary Dorris discusses changes to ancillary services in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) market and what asset optimisers need to do to stay ahead of the curve.
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.
