In Pornainen, Finland, the world’s largest sand-based heat storage facility has officially started operating. This is a joint project by Loviisan Lämpö and the startup Polar Night Energy. The installation has a thermal power capacity of 1 MW and an…
Germany’s Largest Battery Storage System Inaugurated in Bollingstedt In the town of Bollingstedt, located in Schleswig-Holstein, the largest battery energy storage system in Germany has been officially inaugurated. The facility, with a power output of 103.5 MW and a capacity…
DTEK Secures Record Financing for One of Eastern Europe’s Largest Energy Storage Projects DTEK – the largest private investor in Ukraine’s energy sector – has reached an agreement with a consortium of Ukrainian banks, led by Oschadbank, for a record-breaking…
Collaboration Between Industry Giants Yields Next-Generation Silicon Battery A collaboration between two industry giants – U.S.-based Group14 Technologies and German chemical conglomerate BASF – has resulted in the creation of a next-generation silicon battery. This innovation has the potential to…
The Energy Transition Brings New Technologies – and New Risks Battery energy storage systems are becoming the backbone of modern energy infrastructure. However, as several recent incidents have shown, these systems can sometimes catch fire. What might seem obvious in…
In the Swiss town of Laufenburg, at the junction of the borders of Switzerland, Germany, and France, construction has begun on one of the most ambitious energy projects in recent years – the Technology Center Laufenburg (TZL). This is not…
Last week, the House of Representatives passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” – a fundamental legislative proposal from the Republican Party aimed at strengthening the U.S. economy through permanent tax reliefs, infrastructure modernization, support for the agricultural sector, and…
New Zealand has completed its first industrial-scale energy storage installation — the Ruakākā Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) with a capacity of 100 MW and 200 MWh. Located on the North Island near Whangārei, the facility sits within the Ruakākā…
In Lovech, located in north-central Bulgaria, the symbolic opening of the largest operating energy storage system in the European Union took place. The new facility, with an impressive capacity of 496.2 megawatt-hours (MWh) and power output of 124 megawatts (MW),…
In the town of Kallo, in the municipality of Beveren, construction has officially begun on one of the largest energy storage systems in Belgium. The 400 MWh project is being developed by NHOA Energy in collaboration with ENGIE and aims…