Battery energy storage system (BESS) technology could reduce the cost of curtailing wind production in the UK by up to 80%, after over US$1 billion was spent last year, a developer said.
Developer Monsson Group and system integrator Prime Batteries Technology have inaugurated a 6MW/24MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Romania, the country’s largest.
Port Talbot and the Port of Cromarty Firth have been chosen by the UK gov to support its offshore floating wind developments via FLOWMIS.
Retail giant Amazon has agreed with Iberdrola to procure 159MW of renewable energy from the 1.4GW East Anglia 3 offshore wind farm.
The US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has given the go-ahead for a large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) co-located with a wind plant in California.
Energy Vault has connected its first commercial EVx gravity-based energy storage system to the grid in China, while construction has been launched on three others, all-in-all totalling 468MWh of capacity.
SSE Renewables and Equinor have squashed plans to produce green hydrogen directly from its offshore Dogger Bank D wind farm.
Turkey-headquartered lithium-ion and energy storage manufacturer Kontrolmatik Technologies will deploy a 1GWh energy storage project on home soil with financing provided by Chinese energy firm Harbin Electric.
A microgrid project combining solar PV, wind and a 10MWh flow battery in Germany has been completed by BayWa r.e., Ampt and Fraunhofer.
The Crown Estate has concluded its Celtic Sea Habitats Regulations Assessment (HRA) ahead of the offshore wind round five leasing process.
