Behind the numbers: BNEF finds 40% year-on-year drop in BESS costs
BNEF analyst Isshu Kikuma discusses trends and market dynamics impacting the cost of energy storage in 2024 with ESN Premium.
BNEF: Bigger cell sizes, 5MWh containers among major BESS cost reduction drivers
A growing industry trend towards larger battery cell sizes and higher energy density containers is contributing significantly to falling battery energy storage system (BESS) costs.
Year in Review: Fluence on data centres, domestic manufacturing and another ‘record-breaking year’ ahead
Our Year in Review Q&A series continues as we speak with Andrew Gilligan, senior director for commercial strategy at Fluence.
DTEK enlists Fluence for 200MW/400MWh of grid-supporting BESS in Ukraine
System integrator Fluence will provide 200MW/400MWh of BESS for dependent power producer (IPP) DTEK’s projects in Ukraine.
Eneco to take Netherlands’ largest BESS into operation in 2025
Utility Eneco will optimise a BESS project in the Netherlands that, at 31.6MW/126.4MWh, will be the country’s largest when it comes online before the end of the year.
Neoen starts building 90MWh German BESS
France-headquartered IPP Neoen has started construction work on a 45MW/90MWh BESS project in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, set to come online in 2026.
Year in Review with European IPPs Econergy and Ingrid Capacity: ‘Innovative financing is coming’
In this installment of our Year in Review series, we hear from developer and independent power producers (IPPs) Econergy and Ingrid Capacity, both active in the European market.
New Jersey Senators seek to remedy state’s slow progress on energy storage deployment
A bill aimed at creating a pilot programme to incentivise energy storage deployment in New Jersey has advanced through the US state’s legislature after senators voted in its favour.
Resource adequacy: The ‘significant changes’ expected in California’s main driver of utility BESS procurement
Attorney Seth Hilton discusses “a new dynamic for energy storage resources” around resource adequacy in California’s CAISO market.
Sunrun ‘distributed power plant’ helps California utility ride out summer peaks amid NEM 3.0 row
Sunrun has published the results of its Peak Power Rewards system, which saw residential solar systems deployed amongst its customers provide an average of 27MW of power to the California electric grid for 90 consecutive days.
