Irish utility and IPP ESB has received planning consent for a project combining wind and battery energy storage system (BESS) technology in Scotland, UK.
Battery energy storage system (BESS) technology could reduce the cost of curtailing wind production in the UK by up to 80%, after over US$1 billion was spent last year, a developer said.
Developer Monsson Group and system integrator Prime Batteries Technology have inaugurated a 6MW/24MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Romania, the country’s largest.
The US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has given the go-ahead for a large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) co-located with a wind plant in California.
Energy Vault has connected its first commercial EVx gravity-based energy storage system to the grid in China, while construction has been launched on three others, all-in-all totalling 468MWh of capacity.
Turkey-headquartered lithium-ion and energy storage manufacturer Kontrolmatik Technologies will deploy a 1GWh energy storage project on home soil with financing provided by Chinese energy firm Harbin Electric.
In a double whammy of Sweden BESS market news, developer SENS has secured the land for a 40MW project while system integrator Alfen will deploy a 20MW system at a wind farm.
The Dutch municipality of Noordoostpolder has submitted a draft zoning plan for one of the first gigawatt-hour scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in the Netherlands.
