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Reporter, Solar Media Gresham House added the Wickham Market grid-scale battery project (pictured) to its portfolio among a wave of other acquisitions in the past few months alone. Image: Gresham House Energy Storage Fund. Battery storage portfolio investor Gresham House Energy Storage Fund has acquired 55MW of UK projects in the past few weeks and completed a 10MW extension to an existing project. Gresham House Energy Storage Fund, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol GRID, conditionally agreed to acquire its first project north of the English border in Scotl...

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...