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1 week ago | 
energy-storage.news | Cameron Murray
The government of South Africa has revealed the preferred bidders in the third window of its Battery Energy Storage Independent Power Procurement Programme (BESIPPPP), with IPPs Mulilo and Scatec winning the projects. The preferred bidders for the five projects totalling 616MW of capacity were revealed today (30 May) in a speech by Minister of Electricity and Energy Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, of the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy.
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1 week ago | 
solarpowerportal.co.uk | Cameron Murray
BESS owner-operators Gresham House and Statera Energy have signalled their support for zonal pricing, a move being considered by the government as part of its REMA reforms. Speaking to The Times, Gresham House Energy Storage Fund manager Ben Guest and Statera Energy CEO Tom Vernon said that zonal pricing would support energy storage resources’ ability to balance generation in the grid.
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1 week ago | 
energy-storage.news | Cameron Murray
Ingrid Capacity and SEB have broken ground on a large-scale BESS in Finland, while Monsson has acquired a project in Sweden that it will start building in June. Battery energy storage system (BESS) operator Ingrid Capacity and investor SEB Nordic Energy portfolio company Locus Energy have launched construction on a 70MW/140MWh project in Nivala, in the Northern Ostrobothnia region of Finland.
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1 week ago | 
energy-storage.news | Cameron Murray
A c.500MWh BESS project in Bulgaria has been inaugurated, claimed as the largest in the European Union (EU).
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1 week ago | 
energy-storage.news | Cameron Murray
Utility and power generation firm RWE will trade 50MW/100MWh of BESS capacity in Germany from the virtual aggregation platform of startup Terralayr under a five-year agreement. The two companies have entered into a five-year tolling deal starting from 2026 for the battery energy storage system (BESS) capacity spread across several projects in the control area of transmission system operator (TSO) 50Hertz.
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1 week ago | 
energy-storage.news | Cameron Murray
Italy and Spain are set to soar as energy storage markets with multiple gigawatt-hours under construction and much more in the pipeline, but there are questions around the regulatory frameworks driving deployments in each country. That’s according to executives from system integrators Sungrow and Nidec ASI in conversation with ESN Premium at the ees Europe trade expo and conference earlier this month.
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1 week ago | 
energy-storage.news | Cameron Murray
We caught up with China’s largest system integrator HyperStrong’s President of Technology Dr. Guang Yang about how the company is positioning itself for international expansion. In this interview, Dr. Yang discusses the firm’s manufacturing, supply chain, AI and O&M capabilities, and how it uses these to meet customer needs for flexible product design, on-time and on-performance deployment and after-sales services.
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1 week ago | 
energy-storage.news | Cameron Murray
FlexBase Group will start construction on a data centre plus 800MW/1,600MWh flow battery in Switzerland imminently, the firm claimed, explaining to Energy-Storage.news how and why. The private equity-backed company has received local construction approval for the LaufenburgTechnology Center (TZL), which will house a data centre plus a redox flow battery system, which would most likely be the largest of its kind in the world.
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2 weeks ago | 
energy-storage.news | Cameron Murray
Developer BayWa r.e. has sold a 300MW BESS in the Netherlands to tank storage company Vopak. The project is ready-to-build (RTB) with grid connection and required permits secured and is BayWa’s r.e. largest battery energy storage system (BESS) project.
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2 weeks ago | 
energy-storage.news | Cameron Murray
We hear from sources about the state of health of Europe’s battery ecosystem, and how current industry incumbents are hoping to learn from the mistakes of their predecessors. Energy-Storage.news has covered the European battery and battery energy storage system (BESS) manufacturing space regularly over the past few years, a period in which the industry has struggled to take off following a period of high investment and optimism in 2019-2022.
