The Energy Storage Summit EU 2024 heard praise for the UK BESS industry’s approach to “perhaps the most complex energy asset to optimise” from a market perspective.
Solar Power Portal caught up with Virmati’s founder Amit Gudka to discuss the energy transition, the growing need for battery storage and going back to the beginning of a start-up.
Lauren Cook, analyst at Solar Media Market Research, analyses the current status of the UK and Ireland energy storage markets, detailing where there are similarities and differences in how the markets have developed, along with future opportunities.
The pipeline of energy storage projects now established in the Republic of Ireland has reached 2.1GW, with an additional 330MW of projects located in Northern Ireland, according to the first release of the Solar Media’s new Republic of Ireland Storage Project Database Report.
Lauren Cook, analyst at Solar Media Market Research, explores the detail behind the data in the UK’s battery storage market, as new applications continue to swell.
60MW of energy storage developed by Fluence and Sembcorp Energy UK has come online, lauded as one of the largest transacted fleets of its kind in Europe.
As much as 500MW of additional large-scale battery storage capacity could be built in the UK in 2019, increasing its capacity by more than 70% to 1.2GW. Lauren Cook, analyst at Solar Media Market Research, reports.
Solar and storage technologies would possess a “mutually beneficial interaction” in the Capacity Market (CM) should renewables be introduced into the mechanism, National Grid has said.
