Netherlands-headquartered inverter and battery manufacturer Atmoce has launched a new 8 kWh residential energy storage system. The system uses lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery chemistry and delivers 5 kW of output. “The MS-8K-U PRO uses Tier-1 battery cells designed for more than…
Greenvolt Power has obtained a €218 million ($253 million) financing package from UniCredit, comprising €153 million in bridge facilities and a €65 million guarantee facility, to support its 400 MW GWh Ełk and Turośń battery energy storage (BESS) projects in…
Chinese inverter and energy storage manufacturer Sungrow has started construction of a battery energy storage system factory in Egypt with planned annual production capacity of 10 GWh. A groundbreaking ceremony was held on Aug. 17 at the China-Egypt TEDA Suez…
Plug-in solar is now legal in Great Britain, with August 27th marking the day of major regulation change for the solar industry. But battery storage, a valuable aspect of ‘balcony solar’ being used in Europe, missed out on the regulation…
Australia’s first approved single hybrid generator performance standard (GPS) project has now been built and connected. A project joint venture (JV)-owned by Italian utilities major Enel Group and Japanese oil and gas giant Inpex, Potentia Energy with its construction partners…
VSL PowerHive, the battery and energy storage arm of Vikram Solar Ltd., has launched the P261, a 125 kW/261 kWh liquid-cooled BESS designed for C&I consumers in India and international markets. The company said the P261 is designed to meet…
Trina Storage aims to secure up to 50% of the contracted volume in Brazil’s capacity reserve auctions for battery energy storage systems scheduled for December. The strategy includes offering its Elementa 3 platform, strengthening its local operations, and partnering with…
Flinders University researchers are collaborating with industry partners to develop a zinc-iodine battery storage system prototype based on their aqueous zinc-iodine battery (AIZB) design that can charge and discharge over 60,000 cycles. Thew Australian researchers, aiming to establish an alternative to…
Sungrow has connected a 200 MW/400 MWh BESS using its PowerTitan 3.0 system to the grid in Hefei, China’s Anhui province, with the company saying the project reached grid connection in 17 days. Sungrow said its “full-chain intelligent delivery” platform,…
July brought record renewable generation and a return of frequent negative-price hours, yet the market remained noticeably calmer than in previous months. This piece examines why abundant renewables no longer translated into the same price extremes – and what that…