Norway-based renewable energy developer Scatec has completed Africa’s largest solar-plus-storage project, according to the company, bringing the final 564 MW phase of its Obelisk development online near Nagaa Hammadi, Upper Egypt. The Obelisk project is a hybrid facility, combining 1.1…
BW ESS has acquired the ready-to-build 250 MW / 1,000 MWh Yanco battery energy storage system (BESS) in the Riverina region of New South Wales from ACEnergy, with plans to have the facility operational by 2028. Construction will begin in…
Utility-scale battery storage capacity in the United States grew at an average annual rate of 70% over the last three years, driven by rapid utility-scale solar deployment and wholesale price arbitrage, according to the latest Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory…
Researchers from Tokyo University of Science and the Institute of Science Tokyo in Japan have investigated how scandium (Sc) doping and coating can improve the durability and performance of sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) within the cathode element of the battery structure.…
Latin America‑focused solar and storage developer Verano Energy has chosen China’s Sungrow to supply the battery energy storage system (BESS) for its Observatorio project, which is in the municipality of Marchigüe, O’Higgins region. Verano Energy confirmed that the agreement is…
The 500 MW/1 GWh Coalburn 1 BESS has entered commercial operations at a former coal mining site in Scotland, according to CIP. The developer claims the project is now the largest operational BESS in Europe. Construction at the Coalburn 1…
Slovenia’s electricity market operator Borzen has closed applications to its non-repayable grant program for battery energy storage systems (BESS) early after attracting huge interest. The funding call, first announced in June, opened to legal entities including commercial and industrial developers…
French consultancy Clean Horizon has published its June Battery Profitability Index, an indicator of potential revenue in European markets for 2-hour battery energy storage systems (BESS). The index considers the market share of batteries in the energy and ancillary services…
A 1 GW/4 GWh battery energy storage project in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region was connected to the grid on August 3rd 2026, adding a gigawatt-scale grid-forming energy storage facility to one of the country’s major renewable energy regions. The…
The transition to battery power on the job site is seemingly inevitable, but in the US, hazardous material classifications were relatively strict for commercial-sized operations. For contractors actually hauling gear, the logistics themselves have been strangling adoption. When scaling up,…