Power purchase agreements (PPAs) have increasingly shown their limitations, and energy storage and flexibility resources can offer a solution, writes John Diklev, founder and CEO of Sweden-based optimiser and flexibility asset operator Flower.

ESN Premium hears from independent power producer (IPP) Econergy about its expansion from solar into BESS across Europe.

BESS developer-operator S4 Energy has put a 4-hour duration project online in the Netherlands, the first in the country to become operational.

BNEF analyst Isshu Kikuma discusses trends and market dynamics impacting the cost of energy storage in 2024 with ESN Premium.

European battery optimisation and energy trading service provider enspired has partnered with battery analytics company volytica diagnostics.

The government of Estonia will financially back a 500MW pumped hydro energy storage project to meet the country’s need for long-duration energy storage, as the Baltics prepare to disconnect from Russia’s grid this weekend.

Although last year saw a dip in installations and projects submitted for planning, the BESS market in the UK continues to steam ahead with over 8GWh online and nearly 20GWh being built.

Developers Fidra Energy and Innova have secured planning consent for two large-scale BESS projects in the UK, which together total 2,425MW/5,150MWh of energy storage capacity.

A few weeks ago, a battery recycling deal was announced for a 640MWh BESS project in Australia, but the project isn’t even built yet and the cells have 25-year warranties – we caught up with the company recycling the batteries to hear more.

The government of Poland looks set to run further capacity market (CM) auctions with the specific aim of enabling gas plants to win, after BESS wiped the floor with the technology at the last auction.