Alcemi given green light for 1.5GW/3GWh of BESS projects in Scotland
Alecemi has been awarded planning permission for two battery energy storage system (BESS) projects totalling 1.5GW in Scotland.
UK ROUNDUP: CIP’s 1.5GW approvals, Home batteries exempted from tax, Gore Street on GB market revenue concerns
Another roundup of news in brief from the UK’s busy energy storage market with project and financial news from Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, Gore Street Energy Storage Fund, and a tax break for home batteries.
Engie Chile building 5-hour, 264MWh BESS for 2025 operation
Utility and independent power producer (IPP) Engie has started construction on a BESS project in Chile with a 5-hour duration.
Netherlands’ largest BESS owner SemperPower on commercial model, grid and development challenges
We catch up with SemperPower, developer and owner of the two largest BESS projects in the Netherlands, discussing its commercial model, challenges, grid, regulations and more.
UK’s Low Carbon signs revenue share deals with optimisers for 95W of BESS
Independent power producer Low Carbon has signed optimisation agreements with Habitat Energy, Flexitricity, and EDF across four battery energy storage systems (BESS) with a capacity of 95MW.
UK’s battery storage assets subject to ‘weak revenue environment’, says Gresham House
The UK battery storage market is suffering a “weak revenue environment”, with assets not able to participate in balancing the GB grid or replacing gas-fired generation to their fullest capability, according to Gresham House Energy Storage Fund.
Estonia’s first grid-scale BESS to come online in 2025, LG to supply batteries
Eesti Energi has completed the procurement for its 26.5MW/51MWh BESS, the first of that scale in Estonia, with LG Energy Solution among the successful parties.
Additional BESS capacity leads France to reopen secondary reserve/aFRR auction
The energy regulator in France has ordered a reopening of a postponed auction for secondary reserve/aFRR services, citing an increase in the number of BESS certified to provide it.
Energy storage and energy density: an EPC’s view
Energy density is becoming a key tool in optimising the economics of battery energy storage projects as suitable sites become harder to find. Ben Echeverria and Josh Tucker from engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firm Burns & McDonnell explore some of the considerations of designing projects on constrained land.
Finland moves to 2-hour durations as Neoen launches largest BESS in Nordics
IPP Neoen has started construction on a 2-hour 56.4MW/112.9MWh BESS in Finland, in the context of market dynamics which optimiser Capalo AI explained to Energy-Storage.news.
