Israel-based independent power producer Econergy has connected its 40 MW/120 MWh Dalmarnock battery energy storage system in Glasgow, Scotland, to the UK grid. The company expects full commercial operation by December. The three-hour project is financed by approximately £21 million…
Base Power has announced a residential battery program in collaboration with Central Georgia Electric Membership Corporation (Central Georgia EMC), under which the Texas company will provide the co-op with 50 MW of dispatchable battery capacity, located at customer homes throughout…
China Huadian has completed the first grid connection of a 100 MW/1,000 MWh compressed carbon dioxide (CO₂) energy storage plant in Mulei County, Xinjiang, marking a significant milestone for this emerging long-duration storage technology. The facility achieved its initial grid…
Vattenfall has signed a contract with battery storage supplier Fluence for a four-hour battery energy storage system (BESS) at the former nuclear power plant site in Brunsbüttel, northern Germany. The project will have 254 MW of power capacity and more…
Californian-based power infrastructure company Nightpeak Energy has reached commercial operation of the second phase of its Bocanova battery energy storage system (BESS) in southeast Texas, doubling the site’s total capacity to 300 MW / 600 MWh, adding flexibility to the…
Chinese storage system provider Mova has introduced the LumeGret S5000, a residential energy storage system designed to integrate rooftop solar generation, battery storage, household electricity consumption, and electric vehicle charging. The system features an integrated inverter with four maximum power…
Skeleton Technologies has secured a strategic investment led by Siemens that values the Estonian ultracapacitor and battery maker at more than $1 billion. Neither company disclosed the size of the investment beyond noting a “9-figure deal”, which Bloomberg reported at…
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has reported that global annual failures for lithium-ion battery energy storage systems (BESS) per deployed GWh have declined 98% from 2018 to 2025. EPRI defines a failure incident as a large-scale thermal event involving arc-flash, fire,…
Cox has signed an investment agreement with the government of El Salvador to develop solar power, battery energy storage, natural gas and water infrastructure under a program valued at $2.9 billion. The agreement was signed at the presidential palace by…
Finnish transmission system operator Fingrid has published technical requirements obliging new large wind and solar plants in converter-dominated parts of its network to provide grid-forming control, either through their own inverters or through separate equipment built at or near the…