London Stock Exchange-listed battery storage investment firm Harmony Energy Income Trust (HEIT) has predicted that it can generate “attractive returns” despite the ongoing woes in battery energy storage revenues in the GB market.
We hear from industry sources about why we’ve seen a flurry of investors acquiring energy storage developer-operators in the UK and Germany, Europe’s two largest markets by BESS deployments.
UK firm G2 Energy is moving into full BESS wrapped EPC services under its new owner Mitie, having focused on a grid connections and balance-of-plant (BOP) engineering services prior to its predecessor company’s bankruptcy last year, CEO Kelvin Ruck said.
The UK electricity system operator’s T-4 Capacity Market Auction (CMA) for delivery year 2027/28 cleared earlier this week (27 February) after two rounds at an “all-time high” clearing price of £65 (US$82.23)/kW/year.
Masdar Arlington Energy, Renewable Power Capital and TagEnergy have broken ground on, acquired and financed projects UK battery energy storage system (BESS) projects totalling 162MW of power.
Italy-headquartered energy storage solutions provider NHOA Energy grew revenues 33% in 2023 despite a 20% industry-wide drop in prices, it said in its full-year results.
BESS route-to-market (RTM) and optimisation firms in the UK are increasingly looking at a wider variety of contracting mechanisms beyond the revenue-share or ‘merchant’ model, developer-operator Eku Energy told Energy-Storage.news.
Battery energy storage system (BESS) integrator Powin will provide developer-operator Pulse Clean Energy with 50MW/110MWh of its Stack750 energy storage system for a UK project.
