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By: Andy Colthorpe Last year, the UK’s energy storage industry overcame many of its early challenges and became more comfortable with the point where technical capabilities and market opportunities intersect, according to Tony Gannon, head of project management at Scottish Power. Gannon spoke yesterday at a webinar hosted by Solar Media Market Research, on ‘Trends and opportunities in UK and Ireland battery storage,’ where analyst Lauren Cook offered some key statistics and insights into...

Published: 18 Feb 2021, 13:25 By: Christophe Mille, CTO of battery cell startup Verkor. Image: Verkor Digital software company Capgemini is partnering with battery energy storage startup Verkor to help bring to life a 16GWh-capacity lithium-ion cell factory in France. Capgemini, a consultancy which offers digital solutions to the likes of utility company Scottish Water and the World Economic Forum, will work with Verkor to co-design systems that provide data collection and analysi...

Colocating battery energy storage systems alongside renewables projects will be ‘critical’ to energy networks in the future, and could help level up debt financing.

The go-to resource for in-depth news, analysis, blogs and more on the international energy storage industry

The go-to resource for in-depth news, analysis, blogs and more on the international energy storage industry

Published: 17 Feb 2021, 13:01 By: Andy Colthorpe Developer Invenergy has built some of the US largest renewable energy facilities including hybrids paired with battery storage. Image: Invenergy-Sinexcel. The US state of Wisconsin’s first large-scale solar farm only went online in late 2020, but electric and gas delivery holding company WEC Energy Group has just proposed plans for a 310MW solar power plant with 110MW of battery storage. The proposal for the Paris Solar-Battery Par...

Published: 17 Feb 2021, 14:30 By: Editor A 20MW / 18MWh containerised battery energy storage solution in Switzerland, which went online late last year. IHS Markit predicts that while the US will dominate this year and the Asia-Pacific region will rapidly grow market share in the coming years, Europe will see a growth in installations year-on-year of about 70% in 2021. Image: MW Storage AG. Analysis and research firm IHS Markit has predicted that over 10GW of new energy storage wil...

By: Andy Colthorpe New York has some of the most aggressive clean energy policy goals in the world via its Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, targeting decarbonisation of its electricity sector by 2040. Energy storage is expected to play a vital role, with the Act introduced by Governor Andrew Cuomo including a target of 3GW of storage deployment by 2030 to support the transition away from reliance on fossil fuels. New York Power Authority (NYPA), a public power organisation whic...

Published: 16 Feb 2021, 13:30 By: Molly Lempriere SMS managing director John Hall (left) and head of supply chain Phil Norrish (right) at the companys 50MW site in Cambridgeshire, east England. Image: SMS. Smart energy infrastructure company SMS has begun construction on its first battery energy storage project in the UK. The 50MW battery storage development in Burwell, Cambridgeshire will be followed later this month by construction of a 40MW storage site in Barnsley, South Yorks...