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TotalEnergies' BESS project at its Dunkirk refinery is currently France's largest battery storage project, delivered by subsidiary Saft. Image: TotalEnergies.

‘A very good year’: France toasts rapid energy storage growth

March 14, 2022
Close to 900MW of publicly announced battery storage projects will be online in continental France by the end of next year.
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Green batteries: Let’s design for reuse, as well as for recycling

March 14, 2022
‘Simple’ changes at the design stage of batteries could add significantly to their ‘reusability’ before end of life.
Containerised battery storage units at a project in Hokkaido, northern Japan, where grid operator's rules require renewable generators to add storage. Image: Sungrow.

Key technology trends in battery storage 2022-2030: Sungrow Q&A

March 10, 2022
Andy Lycett, Sungrow’s country manager for the UK and Ireland, on the trends that might shape the industry in the years to come. 
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The three things the US needs to catch up with Europe’s battery gigafactory charge

March 9, 2022
With Europe set to reach 789.2GWh of lithium-ion battery gigafactory production by 2030, what does the US need to do to keep up?
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When will long duration battery energy storage take off?

March 7, 2022
Energy-storage.news caught up with executives from two long-duration flow battery energy storage providers, ESS Inc. and Invinity Energy Systems, at the Energy Storage Summit 2022.
One of Inovat's four BESS projects built for distribution companies in Turkey. Image: Inovat.

Turkey’s energy storage market is ‘now fully open’

March 7, 2022
With a commitment to add 1GW each of new solar PV and wind each year, Turkey’s need for energy storage is coming sooner rather than later. 
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Energy storage system integrators and the challenges they face as competition heats up

February 28, 2022
Analyst Oliver Forsyth from IHS Markit explains exactly how things are changing in BESS system integration.
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Demystifying synchronous grid-forming technology

February 24, 2022
Blair Reynolds, SMA America’s product manager for energy storage, discusses the role inverter-based renewable and storage technologies can play in maintaining grid stability.
Fluence Gridstack, the company's modular BESS solution, for large-scale (pictured), will be deployed along with SMA inverters. Image: Fluence.

Fluence: Sections of energy storage value chain will commoditise

February 21, 2022
Creating a wider ecosystem of services and software is essential for system integrators to stay ahead, according to Julian Jansen at Fluence.
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Zinc: A link from battery history to energy storage’s future

February 14, 2022
From data centres to long-duration storage for the grid, zinc looks increasingly likely to play a part in the energy transition, writes Dr Josef Daniel-Ivad from the the Zinc Battery Initiative.

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