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2 weeks ago | 
energy-storage.news | Cameron Murray
A total of 10.9GWh of grid-scale BESS entered commercial operations worldwide in March, up 29% year-on-year and 3% month-on-month. That’s according to market intelligence firm Rho Motion’s Battery Energy Stationary Storage Monthly Database, and the deployments bring the overall Q1 2025 figure to 34.3GWh, a staggering 65% increase compared to Q1 2024.
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3 weeks ago | 
energy-storage.news | Cameron Murray
Mining consortium Kamoa Copper and IPP CrossBoundary Energy have agreed on a PPA providing baseload renewable energy for one of the largest copper mines globally, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The companies have signed the power purchase agreement (PPA) for 30MW of dispatchable renewable baseload power from a 222MWp solar PV, 526MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project. The BESS has a megavolt-amperes (MVA) rating of 123.
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3 weeks ago | 
solarpowerportal.co.uk | Cameron Murray
Planning consent was awarded to BESS projects totalling 1,590MW/3,179MWh of capacity last month, meaning the UK now has a total of around 55.4GW/117GWh approved. That’s according to the latest data from Solar Media Market Research’s ‘Battery Storage: UK Pipeline & Completed Assets Database’ report.
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3 weeks ago | 
energy-storage.news | Cameron Murray
Donald Trump has announced his sweeping ‘Liberation Day’ global tariffs, with another new China tariff resulting in an effective doubling of the price of batteries and BESS imported from there to the US. President Trump announced the new tariffs, which the White House described ‘reciprocal’ to existing tariffs levied in the other direction, yesterday (2 April).
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3 weeks ago | 
energy-storage.news | Cameron Murray
The UK saw 1,590MW/3,179MWh of grid-scale BESS projects approved last month, bringing the total approved projects to around 55.4GW/117GWh. That’s according to the latest data from Solar Media Market Research’s ‘Battery Storage: UK Pipeline & Completed Assets Database’ report.
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3 weeks ago | 
energy-storage.news | Cameron Murray
The system integration arm of SMA Solar and utility RheinEnergie have partnered to deploy BESS projects in Germany, with construction about to launch on the first. The two companies will co-develop battery energy storage system (BESS) projects to be paired with renewable energy plants like wind and solar as well as standalone BESS projects, they said last week (25 March).
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3 weeks ago | 
energy-storage.news | Cameron Murray
A 200MW/400MWh BESS project in China combining lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries has been put into operation. The project in Qiubei County, Wenshan Prefecture, Yunnan Province, has achieved ‘full capacity grid-connected operation’, technology provider HiNa Battery said yesterday (1 April).
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3 weeks ago | 
energy-storage.news | Cameron Murray
Sharon Santhosh, energy storage applications engineer at Wärtsilä, talks all things BESS noise, including enclosure design, the various mitigating measures engineers can implement, and implications of BESS technology developments further down the line. Energy-Storage.news has previously covered the topic of noise emissions from battery energy storage system (BESS) projects, one of growing importance as projects begin to be deployed closer to where people live.
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3 weeks ago | 
energy-storage.news | Cameron Murray
State-owned utility and power generator Eesti Energia has completed and put into commercial operation the first large-scale BESS in Estonia. Eesti Energia officially inaugurated the 26.5MW/53.1MWh battery energy storage system last week (26 March), located at the Auvere industrial power plant complex in Ida-Virumaa. However, the project has been online since 1 February, in time for the Baltic region’s decoupling from the Russian grid a week later.
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3 weeks ago | 
energy-storage.news | Cameron Murray
Finnish marine and power technology firm Wärtsilä has ended an 18-month long strategic review of its Energy Storage and Optimisation (ES&O) business, a process which could have led to the firm divesting it. The firm launched the strategic review of ES&O, its energy storage system integration business, in October 2023 and has today (31 March) announced the end and closure of that review. It had said at the time that the process could result in numerous outcomes, including divestment.
