A roundup of some of our key takeaways from the Energy Storage Summit Germany this week, including around FCAs, inertia, the capacity market (CM), EU restrictions on China, and the future of one very notable system integrator.

The global battery energy storage market is entering a new phase, with shifting cell prices, intensifying competition and rapid international expansion reshaping the supplier landscape.

North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) issued its most urgent grid reliability warning in response to artificial intelligence data centres causing massive, near-instantaneous power fluctuations.

Speaking to ESN Premium, Kashish Shah of Wärtsilä explains why Australia’s volatile market structure makes it uniquely suited for battery storage.

All 1,038 Wärtsilä Quantum battery units have been delivered and installed at the 1.4GWh Wooreen BESS in Victoria, Australia.

Wärtsilä has brought the 150MW/300MWh Bungama BESS online in South Australia, for owner and operator Revera Energy.

Wärtsilä spinning out its energy storage activities and divesting a 50% stake this week reflects difficulties in making the business profitable and synergistic within the wider group activities, analysts said.

There has been another twist in the long-running saga of Wärtsilä’s energy storage business and how the company aims to run it going forward.

Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks with Scott Blalock, general manager, integrated applications engineering, at BESS integrator Wärtsilä Energy Storage.

We catch up with Tamara de Gruyter, president of Wärtsilä Energy Storage, to discuss the system integrator’s strategy under new leadership.