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200 MWh BESS to support New Zealand’s energy transition
Tuesday, January 10, 2023 by Saft, a subsidiary of French company TotalEnergies, has been awarded the contract by Meridian Energy to construct New Zealand’s first large-scale grid-connected battery energy...

Wärtsilä to supply a 100 MWh battery storage system to the UK
Tuesday, December 13, 2022 by Wärtsilä has signed a contract with EDF Renewables UK and Ireland to deliver a new grid-scale energy storage facility in Sundon, Bedfordshire, UK. The 50 MW/100 MWh project will form...

Global BESS capacity to exceed 2 TWh by 2033
Tuesday, December 13, 2022 by In the latest version of its market report, ‘Batteries for stationary energy storage 2023–2033’, IDTechEx predicts that by 2033, global cumulative stationary battery storage capacity...

2000 MW solar and battery storage for the UK
Tuesday, November 29, 2022 by Black & Veatch has been awarded a lead role in the development of an initial 2 GW of solar and battery storage by UK-based developer Amberside Energy. Black & Veatch will...

Renewable Power Capital enters Europe’s storage market
Tuesday, November 29, 2022 by Renewable Power Capital, the pan-European renewable energy investment platform backed by CPP Investments, has entered the battery storage market in Great Britain, working with...

Gravity energy storage could help decarbonise India
Tuesday, November 29, 2022 by A new project aims to identify how gravity energy storage can help decarbonise one of the world’s fastest growing economies. Scottish energy storage specialists Gravitricity have...

Large-scale direct air capture moving to next step
Tuesday, November 01, 2022 by The world’s largest commercial-scale project capturing carbon dioxide directly from the air and storing it underground is undergoing assessment in Iceland. Ramboll has been selected...

Norway has ambitions as a battery powerhouse
Tuesday, September 27, 2022 by Siva – the state-owned Industrial Development Corporation of Norway – has partnered with Morrow Batteries to establish a joint property company that will build a gigafactory for...

DNV launches online battery ‘scorecard’
Tuesday, September 13, 2022 by DNV, the independent energy consultancy and assurance provider, has released the fourth edition of its ‘Battery Scorecard’ report. This edition incorporates independent testing...

Whitetail CCS project shortlisted
Tuesday, August 16, 2022 by 8 Rivers Capital’s UK-based project Whitetail Clean Energy has been selected by the UK government as one of three ‘Power CCS’ low carbon energy generation projects within the UK...

Next-gen heat pump ‘could cut energy bills and CO2 emissions’
Tuesday, August 02, 2022 by Researchers from the University of Glasgow have developed a new type of heat pump, a flexible heat pump technology, which could help households save on their energy bills and...

NGK to install battery and PV combination
Tuesday, August 02, 2022 by NGK Insulators has elected to install a combination storage battery and PV system at its manufacturing sites in Nomi City, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. The system will capture...

UBS acquires 700 MW of energy storage projects
Tuesday, August 02, 2022 by UBS Asset Management has announced the acquisition of five standalone, development-stage energy storage projects in Texas from Black Mountain Energy Storage (BMES). This marks...

Battery storage to be 24% of Ireland's installed energy by 2030
Tuesday, July 19, 2022 by Data from Cornwall Insight Ireland’s ‘All-island power market outlook to 2030’ paper has shown battery storage capacity will grow to become nearly a quarter (24%) of Ireland's...

Energy storage systems for huge solar-plus-storage project
Tuesday, July 12, 2022 by Wärtsilä is delivering a 500 MWac, 2 GWh portfolio of energy storage systems to clean energy developer and operator Clearway Energy Group. The contracts cover five sites located in...

Iberdrola’s first commercial-scale battery system
Tuesday, July 05, 2022 by Iberdrola’s 50 MW Gorman Battery Energy Storage System has been made operational in County Meath, Ireland. It is the company’s first operational commercial-scale battery storage...

GE to triple its manufacturing capacity for energy storage electronics
Tuesday, June 14, 2022 by GE is responding to strongly increased demand by tripling the manufacturing capacity of its solar and battery energy storage Power Electronics systems by the end of 2022 to 9 GW per...

Magnesium to be researched as a sustainable lithium alternative
Tuesday, June 07, 2022 by The potential for magnesium to offer a sustainable and affordable alternative to lithium in batteries is being explored in research led at the University of Strathclyde. The study,...

Illinois coal plants awarded funding for development as storage
Tuesday, June 07, 2022 by The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) has announced $280.5 million in funding over ten years for five of the state’s coal-fired plants that are...