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One of Belgium's existing large-scale battery storage facilities. Image: Eneco-Alfen-Next Kraftwerke. Commodities trading company Trafigura has said that it is building a large-scale battery storage plant in Belgium through a newly-launched renewable energy joint venture (JV) company. Located at the site of a zinc smelting facility in the northeastern Belgian municipality of Balen, owned and operated by metals company Nyrstar, construction on the project is expected to begin in the first half of this year for completion during 2022. Trafigura said in a press release last week that the projec...

Founding principal While fire incidents involving lithium-ion batteries in energy storage systems are rare, they can have devastating consequences for the industry and pose a threat to safety. Tom Bensen, Nick Warner, Ryan Franks and Michael Bowes from energy storage and fire safety expert group Energy Safety Response Group (formerly Energy Storage Response Group) discuss some of the most important aspects of creating a safe battery storage industry.  Energy storage projects can range from a few hundred kilowatt-hours to multiple megawatt-hours in capacity. They can be located in arctic, de...

Published: 8 Jan 2021, 08:43 By: Edith Hancock SimpliPhi's lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery-based BOSS.6 and BOSS.12 energy storage systems have cleared UL9540 certification. Image: SimpliPhi Power. Stem Inc wins incentives for 68MWh of energy storage projects for low-income California communities 5 January 2021: AI specialist energy storage group Stem Inc and its California sales partners have been awarded incentives to deploy 68MWh of energy storage projects for low-income communities in the US state. The company was awarded the projects through last month’s Californi...

Published: 6 Jan 2021, 07:49 By: Andy Colthorpe One of a number of FlexGen battery storage projects already in operation in Texas, several of which were the same size and capacity as this one (10MW / 11MWh) and help stabilise electricity supply for communities near Houston. Image: FlexGen. Update 7 January 2020: In response to some queries from Energy-Storage.news, a FlexGen representative said that the battery storage systems will be 110MW / 110MWh each, both putting 100MW of usable resource onto the grid and that they will utilise 280Ah CATL lithium iron phosphate large forma...

Published: 24 Dec 2020, 11:38 By: Andy Colthorpe JV partner Edify retrofitted a battery storage system using Tesla Powerpacks at Gannawarra solar farm in Victoria, and Precinct Capital said that this rare experience of building a large-scale battery project in Australia was a key aspect in the decision to work together. Image: Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA). A Sydney-headquartered private investment firm and renewable energy and storage developer have lodged a development application to build a large-scale battery energy storage system in Newcastle, in the Hunter re...