Scottish-headquartered energy company SSE has secured planning consent from Mayo County Council for revised plans at its proposed 80 MW / 320 MWh Mullafarry battery energy storage system (BESS) near Killala, North Mayo, in Ireland, in the north-west. Located at…
Heat waves in Europe are becoming the norm. Strong sunlight isn’t the problem. The critical factor is temperature. Solar modules are evaluated under standard test conditions: 1,000 watts per square meter of irradiance and a cell temperature of 25 degrees…
Econergy has signed financing agreements totaling €229 million for its Părău 2 solar-plus-storage project in Brașov County, Romania. The project, pairing 342 MWp of solar with a 150 MW battery energy storage system (BESS), continues to build the Romanian storage…
Tesla has announced a new Powerwall Lease program bundled with its Tesla Electric retail service plan, allowing homeowners in areas of the deregulated Texas energy market to choose an electricity plan and whole-home backup directly from the company. The plan…
US-based PVFarm, which traditionally has offered large-scale solar PV project design and planning tools, has moved into the energy storage market with a new tool called RE STACK. The new platform by the software company, founded in 2001, has now…
Noon Energy and Sabanci Renewables have signed a joint venture agreement to co-develop up to 1 GW of what it calls ‘ultra long-duration energy storage’ (ultra-LDES) projects to deliver 24/7 renewable energy for large artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. The partnership…
Melbourne-headquartered battery tech company Relectrify has installed its first 250 kVA / 1,089 kWh usable AC1 battery energy storage system (BESS) in Renmark, South Australia in collaboration with YES Energy. Powered by its CellSwitch technology, the installation is a step…
Limes Renewable Energy has achieved Ready-to-Build (RTB) status for its 200 MW / 1,000 MWh BESS Huañil project in the Coquimbo region of Chile. The milestone marks the Italian developer’s first RTB project in the country and its first outside…
Pre-installed photovoltaic systems may have been generating electricity for years before their owners decide to add battery storage. To address this market, Chinese company SunEnergyXT, formerly SunLit Solar, has launched an AC-coupled storage system in Germany and wider Europe. The…
Italy’s upcoming 2028 Capacity Market auction is set to introduce structural shifts that will impact energy storage deployment, according to recent analysis by Aurora Energy Research. The primary adjustment involves a new geographic focus designed to steer energy storage capacity…