34+ min ago   (457+ words) Activity in Italy’s grid-scale market is accelerating, with Sonnedix and the Strioga Family Foundation acquiring projects totalling over 1GWh combined, while BNZ and RWE have ordered BESS from Sungrow and LONGi, respectively, totalling 540MWh. None of the projects appears to be among…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (520+ words) Return and Engie have agreed a long-term BESS toll in Spain while EnBW and Zelestra have finalised one in Italy, totalling 55MW and 300MW of capacity respectively. BESS owner-operator Return and power firm Engie have signed a 10-year toll for three battery…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (441+ words) The European Commission has released its final Electrification Action Plan, reaffirming its belief that the EU needs 200GW of energy storage by 2030. The document was leaked last week, revealing the scaled-up ambitions for energy storage deployments across the continent by 2030, and…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (725+ words) There’s been a flurry of BESS project completions across Europe this past week, with projects completed in Germany, Estonia, Belgium, Denmark and Bulgaria by RheinEnergie/SMA, BSP, BStor, European Energy and Sunotec respectively, totalling nearly 700MWh of capacity. Utility RheinEnergie has…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (377+ words) Some 9.1GW/33.5GWh of large-scale BESS came online globally last month, with Saudi Arabia accounting for over one-third of the figure. That’s according to the latest monthly data from Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, reported here as part of a regular series for ESN…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (614+ words) Eni Storage Systems has broken ground on a gigafactory in Italy set to build LFP cells for energy storage applications, while Chinese firm Hithium has won an €81 million (US$92 million) grant from the Spanish government for a battery and BESS…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (283+ words) Power firm Engie has entered into a long-term flexibility purchase agreement with developer Ignis for 625MWh of BESS capacity in Spain. The agreement covers several battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in Spain and gives Engie access to the assets’ flexibility…...

3+ week, 1+ hour ago   (675+ words) Three massive BESS projects have been launched in Europe: BW ESS has broken ground on a 1GW/5.7GWh system in Germany, while Greenvolt and Giga Storage have enlisted suppliers (BYD and Tesla) for 2.4GWh and 2.8GWh projects in Poland and Belgium. Battery energy storage…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (969+ words) Axpo and e-Storage have partnered on a BESS in southern Italy, RES Group has signed a full-scope battery asset management agreement in Sweden, while R.Power has agreed to sell a Poland BESS project to Engie. Switzerland-based power firm Axpo and…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (545+ words) Octopus Energy Generation has partnered with ZE Energy to invest in and build one of Italy’s biggest BESS projects, while Eco Stor has secured financing for one of Germany’s, which it is already building. Meanwhile, optimiser Entrix has also won…...