Cameron Murray

The Scottish government has consented a 228MW/456MWh battery energy storage project (BESS) to be constructed and operated by developer Kona Energy.

Statera has received planning consent for a 400MW/2,400MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Weymouth.

Battery energy storage helped power numerous parts of Glastonbury, the world’s largest music and arts festival, including the Arcadia stage.

BESS units are being shipped to Cero Generation’s Larks Green solar and storage project, the first to be connected at the transmission level, the firm said.

Octopus Energy has signed a two-year fixed-price tolling agreement with Gresham House Energy Storage Fund for 500MW of its battery assets, bringing the utility’s virtual power plant (VPP) portfolio to over 1.5GW.

Cumberland Council has granted planning permission for a 200MW/400MWh BESS project from developers Recurrent Energy and Windel Energy which, unless a new grid connection date is agreed, won’t start construction until 2029.

Revenues for the Gresham House Energy Storage Fund have started to recover in 2024 after falls in 2023, fund manager Gresham House said.

The energy storage arm of EV supercar technology firm Rimac has opened its UK innovation and manufacturing facility, where it will build the first units of its SineStack BESS platform.

Masdar Arlington Energy and RPC progress their UK-based battery energy storage system (BESS) pipelines totalling 112MW.

A 100MW BESS projected developed and recently sold by Pacific Green has gone online at a National Grid substation in Kent.