Bulgaria’s NEK deploying BESS at hydropower plants
State-owned utility and power generation firm NEK is deploying BESS at its hydropower plants across Bulgaria.
Fluence lowers 2025 guidance due to ‘disappointing’ contract delays, competitive pressure
Fluence has reported a year-on-year fall in quarterly revenues and lowered its 2025 guidance but sees ‘robust’ global demand for battery storage.
Cyprus: Guidance issued for 150MW/350MWh energy storage support scheme
The government of Cyprus has published guidelines for a scheme to support the deployment of approximately 150MW/350MWh of energy storage.
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.
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.
EU Roundup: ‘Sand Battery’ for electricity storage, 44MWh France BESS online, Spain funds 3.4GWh of projects
A roundup of energy storage news from across the EU, involving Polar Night Energy’s ‘Sand Battery’ in Finland, GazelEnergie and Q Energy in France, and Spain’s MITECO awarding financial support to 45 projects.
Germany: Nofar Energy claims first physical fixed-price toll for BESS in Continental Europe
IPP Nofar Energy has agreed a Flexibility Purchase Agreement (FPA) for a 209MWh BESS project in Germany, the first of its kind in Continental Europe, it claimed.
TagEnergy and Tesla launching construction on France’s largest BESS at 480MWh
Renewable developer and IPP TagEnergy will soon start construction on the largest BESS project in France, a 240MW/480MWh project with Tesla providing BESS and EPC services.
