Eelpower Energy, a UK grid-scale battery storage platform backed by Equitix, Aware Super and the National Wealth Fund, said it has acquired the Silkstead battery energy storage project near Winchester, England, from developer Balanced Grid Works. The company described the…
Furo and Luox Energy will offer a combined solution for market access and optimization of commercial and industrial battery energy storage systems (BESS). The companies said they are combining Furo’s platform for battery planning, optimization and control with Luox’s time-variable…
Spanish renewable energy company Norvento Enerxía is expanding its focus in Latin America’s growing energy storage market, with Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Mexico and Guatemala among its priority markets. The company plans to supply its new nXL power conversion technology to…
Lucerne, Switzerland-based Horizonte Group AG is developing a joint battery storage service with its subsidiaries Horizonte-Group Technik (HGT), based in Cologne, and Metelligent, a joint venture with German energy supplier EAM. Cologne-based energy supplier Einklang NE Solutions, also known as…
AES Andes has begun testing the battery energy storage system (BESS) at its Cristales project in Chile’s Antofagasta region. The BESS has a power output of 340 MW and four hours of duration, equivalent to 1,360 MWh of storage capacity.…
US tech giant Amazon has signed a tolling agreement with Anza Power, an Australian subsidiary of US infrastructure investment firm I Squared Capital, for the under-development 50 MW/200 MWh Bairnsdale battery energy storage system (BESS) in Victoria, Australia. The agreement…
D.TRADING, the energy trading unit of Ukraine’s DTEK Group, and Finnish battery optimizer Capalo AI said they have started working together to offer structured revenue arrangements for battery energy storage and hybrid renewable projects in Europe, combining D.TRADING’s offtake capabilities…
Czech-headquartered technology company Second Foundation has partnered with BLEnergy and Shamir Energy on one of Lithuania’s largest standalone battery energy storage systems (BESS), signing an optimization agreement for a to-be-built 140 MW facility in Alytus, Lithuania, south of Kaunas. Commissioning…
Norway’s battery storage market is gaining regulatory momentum but remains constrained by grid access and weak project economics, according to analysis from Norwegian consultancy Multiconsult. Hassan Gholami, a senior consultant on solar and storage at Multiconsult, told ESS News that…
MN8 Energy said it will build “Mammoth Solar,” an 86 MW solar project in Kanawha County, West Virginia, paired with 70 MW/280 MWh of lithium-ion storage and 10 MW/100 MWh of Eos Energy Enterprises’ Z3 zinc-based LDES system. Google will…