storage

A new report by analytics firm Aurora Energy Research has named Britain one of Europe’s best markets for battery energy storage systems (BESS).

Zenobē has announced today that its Blackhillock battery site in Scotland, the largest in Europe, has begun commercial operations.

Apatura has secured planning permission for a 400MW battery energy storage system (BESS) to be built in central Scotland.

Elements Green has signed a deal with Mitie-owned G2 Energy to design and build its 360MW/720MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Nottinghamshire.

Battery energy storage system (BESS) developer Root-Power has announced that it has been granted planning permission for a 40MW/80MWh BESS in Rotherham.

Developer Innova has announced signing of a 40-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for the combined 15MWp output of its Cefn and Wrexham solar farms.

A fire which broke out at an under-construction BESS project in Essex last week was brought under control and then handed back to site management within 24 hours.

Storage and batteries are the “only way” to solve the “massively complex” green grid of the future, managing director of Adaptogen Capital James Mills said on a panel at the Energy Storage Summit in London last week.

On a panel at the Energy Storage Summit in London, head of connections policy at Ofgem said grid connection reforms will ultimately mean “a clearer signal to networks about what to build”.

BW ESS and Sungrow have announced the start of commercial operations of the Bramley Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), a 100MW/331MWh project located in the south of England.