UK energy company TagEnergy said it closed financing on its fourth battery storage facility, the 49.9MW/100MWh Roaring Hill development in Fife, Scotland. Construction will commence and the facility is expected to begin operating in Q1 2024. Energy company RES will be as asset manager, said TagEnergy. It acquired Roaring Hill from RES in September 2021. The facility […]
The link below takes you to all the energy nodes across europe along with grid lines: See All the Energy Nodes Across Europe Click in ” Legend ” at 9 O’clock and you can see the voltage of the lines and the mosaic of power generation plants in operation and planned. Click on the white […]
Two weeks ago it was announced that Origis Energy, one of America’s largest solar and energy storage developers, had contracted Mitsubishi Power Americas to provide three utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) that would be co-located with three photovoltaic solar facilities in the Southeast United States. Why had Origis taken the step of acquiring the storage […]
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What is thought to be Europe’s biggest battery energy storage system has begun operating near Hull. The site, said to be able to store enough electricity to power 300,000 homes for two hours, went online at Pillswood, Cottingham, on Monday. Its launch was brought forward four months as the UK faces possible energy shortages this […]
Asset manager BlackRock has acquired US battery energy storage developer Jupiter Power from EnCap Investments. The largest asset management firm in the world, with around US$10 trillion under management, has agreed to buy Jupiter through its BlackRock Alternatives arm. The selling parties are EnCap’s EnCap Energy Transition Fund I (EETF I) and co-investors Yorktown Partners […]
The UK will have 50GW-plus of energy storage installed by 2050 in a best case scenario attainment of net zero, according to grid operator National Grid’s Future Energy Scenarios report. The report’s broader conclusions around the energy sector were covered in detail by Energy-Storage.news’ sister site Current yesterday. It is published by the National Grid ESO (electricity system operator) each […]
There is growing consensus from European Union policymakers and regulators that energy storage is vital to securing affordable and low carbon energy, but the technologies still face market challenges. As a relatively new and complex technology with a wide variety of different use cases open to it, battery-based energy storage isn’t yet being made the […]
Renewable energy developer ABO Wind has commissioned its first standalone battery energy storage system (BESS), in Kells, Northern Ireland. The Germany-based firm has commissioned the 50MW/25MWh BESS unit which it claimed is one of the fastest storage systems globally, with a response time of less than 150 milliseconds. It is also the largest BESS ABO […]