Sumit Joshi, director at consultancy Baringa, agreed that the UK is a particular case of grid connections reform driving M&A,...
Wärtsilä on why AI data centres need BESS to smooth demand and avoid ‘destroying the grid’
“Basically the GPUs ramp up very quickly, they go at nearly full power, and then they all ramp down really...
Portion of Czech hydropower station to be transformed into 154MW/750MWh pumped storage plant
Stakeholders celebrating the plans to convert the plant. Image: CEZ Group. The Czech Republic’s fourth pumped hydro energy storage plant...
RWE officially opens Australia’s first 8-hour battery storage system
“It’s exciting to cut the ribbon on this Australian-first battery, which will get more renewable energy into the grid, placing...
Sembcorp completes US$4.32 billion acquisition of Alinta Energy, adds 10.4GW Australian pipeline
Alinta operates a portfolio spanning 3.4GW of installed and contracted generation capacity across coal, gas, wind and solar. The company’s...
VDA calls for ‘staged approach’ to implement EU Battery Passport
The new regulation requires carbon footprint labelling, recycled-content quotas, and other measures that will be phased in gradually, while the...
Greenvolt inaugurates Hungary’s largest BESS; pipelines progressed and financed elsewhere in EU
It replaces a 40MW/80MWh project from Met Group, inaugurated in mid-2025, as the largest in the country. Greenvolt is also...
Europe is ‘walking into new dependencies’ in global battery supply chain
This separation of upstream and downstream components is important, as von Dalwigk noted that Europe is currently reliant on overseas...
Established manufacturing footprint, new technology: SK On’s US BESS market strategy
“Our plan is to use our manufacturing footprint in the US. We believe that’s one of our strong advantages. Obviously,...
Spain’s BESS pipeline is real: the PE models are wrong
I chair Capflex Energía, a standalone BESS developer with a self-developed pipeline of more than 500MW across Spain, with grid-connection...