Storage
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RES has expanded its European services footprint with Nala Renewables. The 217 MW mandate covers operational solar and battery assets in Lithuania, Belgium, and Greece, underscoring rising demand for integrated asset management as multi-market portfolios scale.
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Battery storage secured fresh capacity market contracts across Great Britain. The combined 1.8GW haul in the T-1 and T-4 auctions underlines storage’s growing role in firming a more renewable system.
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Fourth Power is nearing a grid-scale thermal storage demonstration phase. The company plans to switch on a 1MWh unit later this year as it advances a high-temperature modular storage system.
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Grenergy has secured long-term UK storage revenues across four projects. The NESO-backed contracts give the developer a 190 MW / 760 MWh platform in the British capacity market through the end of the decade.
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ComAp and IBG deployed modular BESS controls for Central Europe.
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Galetech is expanding UK renewable engineering services with £3 million.
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Aypa Power has reached financial close for two Ontario battery projects. The Elora and Hedley assets add contracted storage capacity secured through the IESO’s Long-Term 1 procurement.
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Peak Energy and RWE Americas plan a sodium-ion storage pilot in Wisconsin. The project would mark the first deployment of sodium-ion batteries on the MISO network if commissioned as planned.
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UKBIC has opened its Flexible Pilot Line in Coventry. The new line is intended to lower material and scale-up costs for battery start-ups and SMEs moving from lab work toward commercial manufacture.
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Spain’s renewable build-out is running ahead of the networks needed to support it. EDP Spain says grid investment, demand growth, and clearer rules for storage now matter as much as generation if the country is to keep attracting energy-transition capital.