Zinc batteries charged for another banner year. Energy Storage Emerging Technology TOP STORIES Buzz. Wednesday, 07 February 2024. Zinc is advancing to deliver as a top battery chemistry for energy storage in 2024, following a breakthrough in both funding and demonstration projects last year, writes Dr. Josef Daniel-Ivad* of the

Goldman Sachs Renewable Power has cut the ribbon on Slate, a large-scale solar-plus-storage project in Kings County, California. The project pairs 300MW of solar PV with a 140.25MW/561MWh battery energy

The Ministry of Energy of Romania has reopened a competitive solicitation for battery storage for the grid integration of renewable energy, seeking "at least" 240MW and 480MWh of resources. The Ministry made its announcement yesterday (8 February), aiming to get the 2-hour duration battery energy storage system (BESS) facilities up

Energy companies work alongside UK Power Networks on the UK''s battery storage demonstration project seen here. (Image Credit: UKPN) The battery, which uses safe, non-flammable, non-toxic materials and a pH-neutral, water-based salt, consists of a water-based electrolyte, a pillared vanadium oxide positive electrode and an inexpensive

Construction has started on what will be the largest battery storage project in Belgium at 25MW/100MWh when completed later this year. Nala Renewables'' lithium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS) will come online at metals conglomerate Nyrstar''s zinc smelting operation in Balen, in Belgium''s Flemish region, by the end of 2022.

A megawatt-scale sodium-sulfur (NAS) battery demonstration project involving South Korea''s largest electric utility has gone online. Operational start of the 1,000kWdc/5,800kWhdc NAS battery storage system made by NGK Insulators was announced by the Japanese manufacturer and designer of the technology last week.

Maoneng has been granted development approval for its proposed 240MWp/480MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Victoria, Australia, which in megawatt-hour terms will be the country''s biggest project of its type so far.

1 · It covers a multitude of technologies, from electrochemical batteries to mechanical and thermal energy storage, with the latter often capable of providing power as well as heat (or cooling) energy. While technically, lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are capable of longer durations than the typical 1-hour to 4-hour deployments that dominate today''s new

The Slovenia-headquartered company was recently in the news for a 20MWh project it commissioned in Austria, which is the country''s largest, and it is

Slovenia plans to provide individual grants of up to €25 million per beneficiary to encourage investment in ramping up clean energy projects. The aid package was approved under the EU''s state aid

Zinc batteries are flexible, capable of long cycle life, high specific energy, and power. They have a wide operating temperature and require minimal upkeep to maintain performance and safety. Across a range of applications zinc batteries prove to be the lowest cost option available. Zinc batteries are non-toxic and made from abundant and

Zinc ion batteries (ZIBs) exhibit significant promise in the next generation of grid-scale energy storage systems owing to their safety, relatively high volumetric energy density, and low production cost.

Developer-operator Strata Clean Energy has completed a US$559 million financing package for its 1.02GWh Scatter Wash BESS project in Arizona, US. The package is comprised of debt and tax equity investment for the 255MW/1,020MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) near Phoenix, on which construction started last month.

Within this project, two (x2) batteries of 5MW/25MWh (total of 50MWh) will be installed at two different locations of the grid to enhance adaptation of the

Canadian Solar has said its project development arm has a pipeline of more than 27GWh of battery storage projects, while its system integrator business has a pipeline exceeding 4GWh. The vertically integrated solar PV company announced its latest quarterly financial results last week. Our colleagues at PV Tech reported on 24 May that

In September 2020, Energy-Storage.news reported on a €20 million grant from the EU to Croatia-based energy storage operator IE-Energy for the firm to deploy projects in the country. In April, Croatia and its neighbour Slovenia started a trial project looking at how a five-hour duration battery storage system could increase grid flexibility

The European Commission has given the go-ahead to a €150 million (US$160 million) state aid scheme for renewable energy and energy storage in Slovenia. The executive arm of the European Union

Image: Eesti Energia. A state agency in Estonia has provided €5.2 million (US$5.7 million) in grants for 10 energy storage projects, including a 4MW/8MWh battery storage project from utility

France''s first high-voltage transmission grid-connected battery project colocated with a solar PV plant will be equipped with a battery energy storage system (BESS) from Saft. The battery manufacturer and energy storage system integrator announced today the award of an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC)

Developer NGEN is deploying the largest battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Slovenia, Austria and Croatia, and wants to take its model beyond CEE too, CEO and co-founder Roman Bernard said. The Slovenia-headquartered company was recently in the news for a 20MWh project it commissioned in Austria, which is the country''s largest,

Utility RheinEnergy announced last week (24 July) the start of construction on a 32MW solar PV, 7MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project in the northern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It will be commissioned in 2024. RheinEnergy and Bayernwerk have started building and commissioned 7MWh battery storage

The renewable energy IPP arm of UK utility SSE is to start building a 320MW/640MWh battery energy storage system (BESS), which could be the largest under-construction in the country. The company has taken a final investment decision (FiD) on the Monk Fryston project in Yorkshire, north England, and will now proceed with

Redflow''s project for California biofuel producer Anaergia (pictured) has been in operation for over a year. Image: Redflow. Redflow will supply a 20MWh zinc-bromine flow battery energy storage system to a large-scale solar microgrid project in California, aimed at

Sincro.Grid has passed another milestone with the start of the trial operation of two battery storage units with 10 MW in total power and a storage time of five hours.

Utility Zen Energy has acquired a large-scale 2.5 hour battery storage project from developer and IPP RES in Australia, with a forecasted commercial operation date (COD) of end-2024. Zen has acquired the 111MW/270MWh Templers Battery Project from RES, located north of Adelaide in South Australia, the utility''s first battery storage

August 29, 2023. Image: Harmony Energy. Alex Thornton, operations director at Harmony Energy, gives us a deep dive into Pillswood, the biggest battery storage project in Europe, including the bold decision to be an early-mover into 2-hour lithium-ion BESS, in a market of much shorter duration assets. This is an extract of a feature which

NGEN installed a 12.6MW / 22MWh battery project in north-western Slovenia last year and held an official launch event in October 2019. Company press representative Mirjam Bernard told Energy-Storage.news today that the second project, this time using Tesla''s larger and newer Megapack product, has also successfully been

Image: Duke Energy. Eos Energy Enterprises has offered 2022 revenue guidance of US$50 million and the zinc battery storage company''s leadership has claimed gross positive margins can be achieved in a year and a half. The company reported its Q4 2021 financial results on Friday. It narrowly missed a US$5 million full-year 2021 revenue

Dutch utility Eneco is planning a 50MW/200MWh battery storage project in Belgium for commissioning next year, and called for more policy action on storage from its own government in the Netherlands. The Rotterdam-based company announced today (7 June) that the battery energy storage project has received permits and that

System integrator Powin Energy has been chosen by Idaho Power to supply 120MW/524MW of battery energy storage system (BESS) projects, the state''s first utility-scale storage developments. The BESS projects are set to come online in summer 2023 and Idaho Power said they will help maintain reliable services during periods of

From data centres to long-duration storage for the grid, zinc looks increasingly likely to play a part in the energy transition, writes Dr Josef Daniel-Ivad from

UAE-based renewable energy company Masdar has expanded the scale of an agreement with the government of Uzbekistan to develop battery energy storage systems (BESS). A joint development agreement (JDA) was signed between the pair in May 2023 for 2GW of wind energy and 500MWh of battery storage, as reported by Energy

The European Commission (EC) on Friday approved, under EU state aid rules, a EUR-150-million (USD 161m) scheme in Slovenia that aims to support the expansion of renewable energy, heat and energy storage.

The first awards of funding designed to "turbocharge" UK projects developing long-duration energy storage technologies have been made by the country''s government, with £ 6.7 million (US$9.11 million) pledged. The total £ 68 million competitive funding opportunity was launched by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial