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1 month ago | 
pv-magazine.com | Blathnaid O'Dea
Developers from the renewable energy and data center markets are working to find common ground to meet surging energy demand fueled by the artificial intelligence boom.
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2 months ago | 
ess-news.com | Blathnaid O'Dea |Blathnaid O’Dea |Marija Maisch |Sandra Enkhardt
Swedish startup Cellfion is developing PFAS-free membranes for its LDES non-vanadium flow batteries, CEO and co-founder Liam Hardey has told ESS News. “Additionally, we are developing PFAS-free membranes for the hydrogen industry, including applications in fuel cells, fuel cell humidifiers, and electrolyzers,” said the chief executive.
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2 months ago | 
ess-news.com | Blathnaid O'Dea |Blathnaid O’Dea |Marija Maisch |Tristan Rayner
In July 2024, the Department of Energy (DOE) of the Philippines said its next renewable energy auction would focus strongly on integrating renewable energy and energy storage systems (IRESS). Initially, the auction was to be held in the final quarter of 2024, but the DOE is only getting around to outlining the details of the Green Energy Auction, (GEA-4), now. The GEA-4 is the Philippines fourth renewable energy auction, but the first to focus on IRESS.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
ess-news.com | Blathnaid O'Dea |Blathnaid O’Dea |Marija Maisch |Sergio Matalucci
In a study published in the Journal of Power Sources, researchers at the University of the Basque Country in Spain (UPV/EHU) presented an energy storage system made using electrodes derived from wood biomass. The wood biomass they used comes from a variety of pine tree, and it is widely available as a waste product from sawmills, making it both a cost-effective and sustainable method according to the Solid State and Materials Research Group at the UPV/EHU.
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Mar 5, 2025 | 
ess-news.com | Blathnaid O'Dea |Blathnaid O’Dea |Sergio Matalucci |Sandra Enkhardt
A pending ‘recipe’ developed by academics from the University of Leicester in the UK could shorten the long recycling loop associated with lithium-ion batteries, thereby making recycling these batteries more profitable. The scientists’ method allows lithium-ion battery black mass, a low-value mixture of anode and cathode and other materials, to be purified directly within minutes of operation at room temperature. Their research has been published in the journal RSC Sustainability.
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Mar 3, 2025 | 
ess-news.com | Blathnaid O'Dea |Sergio Matalucci |Marija Maisch |Sandra Enkhardt
Thanks to technological advances, developer SENS has been able to increase the capacity of the BESS component of its innovative hybrid pumped hydro-BESS project, located at Pyhäsalmi mine in Finland. The cluster comprises a 75 MW underground pumped storage hydroelectric (UPHS) facility and a BESS. Initially, the BESS’ capacity was to be 85 MW but this has doubled to 170 MW, the company announced in Feb. 2025. It attributed this capacity increase to improved BESS technology.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
ess-news.com | Blathnaid O'Dea |Massimiliano Tripodo |Marija Maisch |Tristan Rayner
Italy’s transmission system operator (TSO) Terna has announced the results of its capacity market auction for the delivery year 2027. It has allocated 38.04 GW of existing capacity, 0.59 GW of new capacity and 4.36 GW of capacity from abroad. The auction was held on Feb. 26. For each Italian region, Terna announced the total amounts accepted and the related enhancement prizes. Altogether, the total capacity awarded is 43 GW, for more than €1.847 billion.
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
ess-news.com | Blathnaid O'Dea |Blathnaid O’Dea |Sandra Enkhardt |Max Hall
Scale Energy was only founded in January 2024, but its ambition quickly netted interest from high-profile investors. The fledgling startup’s mission, its CEO and co-founder Elias Aruna told ESS News, is all about accelerating the deployment of industrial battery storage and unlocking the “untapped potential of existing grid connections”. With fresh funding secured, it will proceed with its plan to build the biggest decentralized battery storage network in Europe.
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Feb 25, 2025 | 
ess-news.com | Blathnaid O'Dea |Blathnaid O’Dea |Sandra Enkhardt |Max Hall
Malaysian utilities company Sarawak Energy has commissioned what is described as the nation’s first utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS). The 60 MW/82 MWh BESS, which was first energized in Dec 2024, shares the site with the soon-to-be-phased-out Sejingkat Power Plant, first commissioned in 1998. The commissioning is a new development for utility-scale BESS in Malaysia.
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Feb 20, 2025 | 
pv-magazine.com | Sergio Matalucci |Blathnaid O'Dea
“If the European Union wants to reach its climate targets, it needs to build a bridge with Saudi Arabia,” Marco Arcelli, ACWA Power’s Chief Executive Officer, said in an exclusive interview pv magazine.
