As part of the agreement, storage developers will provide yearly estimates of new project capacity while energy-consuming industries have committed...
UK’s Ofgem goes big on LDES cap-and-floor window 1; 18-hour lithium-ion among winners
The scheme aims to enable the deployment of LDES capacity to improve security of supply, reduced emissions and lower system...
Sodium-ion will reach cost parity with LFP ‘in two to three years’, BESS firm says
Energy-Storage.news’ Cameron Murray with Valentin Rota, co-founder and CCO of Moonwatt. Image: Solar Media Sodium-ion BESS startup Moonwatt expects the...
EU funding ban on Chinese inverters drives BESS industry towards optionality, supply chain resiliency
The group of 30 MEPs cited cybersecurity concerns in an open letter to executive vice president of the commission, Henna...
CATL: System- and cell-level advances driving sodium-ion energy density improvements
That is a marked improvement on sodium-ion’s energy density, which is normally far below half of lithium-ion LFP batteries. Amandu...
Energy trader Second Foundation on owning projects and the ‘art’ of trading batteries in Germany
It comes a week after the Energy Storage Summit at the Battery Show Europe, hosted by Energy-Storage.news publisher Solar Media and co-located with...
CEE Roundup: EPCs complete CATL and Sungrow-supplied 600MWh Bulgaria projects
Large-scale BESS in Bulgaria primarily participate in the day-ahead and intraday national electricity markets, but the country’s market has been...
Limited synergies and profitability drive Wärtsilä’s energy storage divestment
‘Hard to make business profitable’, ‘limited synergies’ Timo Heinonen, an equity analyst covering the company at Handelsbanken, told us that...
EU Roundup: Octopus and Eco Stor financing deals for large-scale BESS in Italy and Germany enable 1.6GWh of capacity
A BESS that ZE Energy recently put into operation in France. It and Octopus are co-investing in the Italy project....
14.6GWh of BESS deployed globally in May; activity up 24% in 2026 so far
The monthly figure for May was actually a year-on-year fall of 32%, but that reflects a strong month in May...