Fotowatio Renewable Ventures enters German market
A battery storage project in the UK in which FRV is an investor. Image: Harmony Energy. Renewables developer Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) has declared its entry into the German market, opening its first German office in Munich in December and expressing the intention to develop 2GW of solar and energy storage assets in the next four years.
Bill Gates'' VC investment firm leads US$50m
Bill Gates founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures and is its chairman. Image: UK Department for International Development. Thermal storage startup Antora Energy has raised US$50 million from a group of investment
Bill Gates'' VC investment firm leads US$50m
Bill Gates founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures and is its chairman. Image: UK Department for International Development. Thermal storage startup Antora Energy has raised US$50 million from a group of investment firms including Bill Gates'' Breakthrough Energy Ventures to accelerate the development of its heat-based carbon block energy storage system
UK ''energy storage infrastructure specialist'' Flexion
Formed by Dan Taylor and Hassen China as a joint venture (JV) with ion Ventures, a renewables and cleantech development and advisory company of which the pair are co-founders, Flexion is intending to develop,
Breakthrough Energy Ventures invests in grid
Reactive Technologies'' GridMetrix is set to be used by UK network operator National Grid ESO. Image: Reactive Technologies. Breakthrough Energy Ventures was among investors in a Series C funding round for Reactive Technologies, a company which has developed a means to measure "fundamental grid stability parameters in real-time," offering visibility to
UK ''energy storage infrastructure specialist'' Flexion gets
Formed by Dan Taylor and Hassen China as a joint venture (JV) with ion Ventures, a renewables and cleantech development and advisory company of which the pair are co-founders, Flexion is intending to develop, build, own and manage UK energy storage systems, with this new investment to enable it to construct and make operational an initial
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99MW BESS energised as Harmony Energy and FRV
Harmony Energy and Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) have completed another joint project, energising a 99MW/198MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Essex. The Clay Tye project operates 52 Tesla
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Fotowatio Renewable Ventures, a developer of renewables with 1.9GW of projects to its name, has announced its first grid-scale battery project as it embarks on a global energy storage push. The company said that this initial battery storage project is part of its "long-term investment plan to develop projects globally", driven to a greater
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Fotowatio Renewable buys 600MW BESS portfolio in Greece
Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) has acquired a 600MW portfolio of battery energy storage system projects in development in Greece. Skip to content. Solar Media. Energy-Storage.news reported on the EU country''s doubling of its energy storage deployment target from 1.5GW to 3GW by 2030 back in April this year. Several announcements
UK''s biggest battery storage project gets
It comes after FRV and Harmony Energy recently completed their joint 34MW/68MWh Contego battery energy storage facility near Burgess Hill in West Sussex, England, which went live with a system of 28 Tesla Megapacks and the Autobidder software. Contego is the second joint project in the UK to use Tesla Megapacks, with the other being the
Sodium-ion energy storage firm Peak Energy launches
The company has a target to lower energy storage costs by up to 50%. Max Reid, research analyst in Wood Mackenzie''s Battery & Raw Materials Service segment, told Energy-Storage.news last year he estimated there would be around 1GWh of global annual sodium-ion battery production capacity in 2023 rising to 5-10GWh by 2025.
UK Roundup: 550MW of BESS acquired by FRV, NESF, Gore Street
Developer Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) has acquired two new battery energy storage projects, with a combined capacity of up to 100MW, from RE Projects Development Limited (REPD). Energy-Storage.news'' publisher Solar Media will host the eighth annual Energy Storage Summit EU in London, 22-23 February 2023. This year it is moving to a
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Fotowatio Renewable Ventures'' UK partnership
Tesla Megapack battery storage units at the pair''s completed Contego project. Image: Harmony Energy. Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) and UK developer Harmony Energy have announced the initial construction works of the Clay Tye battery energy storage system (BESS), which they claim is the UK''s largest in construction.
Long-duration ''pumped heat energy storage'' startup Malta raises
Malta Inc, developer of a grid-scale electro-thermal energy storage technology, has closed a Series B funding round, raising US$50 million from investors that include Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz. Bill Gates'' Breakthrough Energy Ventures and industrial materials group Alfa Laval. The Series B was led by Switzerland-headquartered
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Primergy secures $225m for US solar storage portfolio
The VoF portfolio is a collection of energy projects consisting of the early 2024-commissioned Gemini Solar + Storage project and five other ventures. Collectively, the projects offer 2.65GW of solar power and the potential for up to 1.5GW of battery storage capacity.
Chile: oEnergy and FRV submit EIAs for co-located battery storage
Developers Fotowatio Renewable Ventures and oEnergy have moved forward with environmental impact assessments (EIA) for two PV co-located battery storage projects in Chile, one of which is an 8-hour lithium-ion system. 9MW/72MWh lithium-ion battery energy storage system. An EIA was submitted to the government body responsible for processing
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Construction begins on Fotowatio''s second UK
Holes Bay was completed and commissioned in mid-2020, with FRV working with partners including UK developer and build-own-operate company Harmony Energy November 2020, the pair then announced its second project in the country, called Contego, in West Sussex, southern England. The new project will use 34MW / 68MWh of Tesla''s Megapack utility-scale
US telecom, infrastructure battery specialist
BCP Ventures co-founder and general partner Roger Lang said Caban''s offerings could "reinvent energy delivery for the telecommunications sector and bring renewable power to critical infrastructure in all corners of the world," highlighting a "rapid growth trajectory and positive climate and human impact". Energy-Storage.news
Australia: Zen Energy buys BESS project for end-2024 deployment
As previously written by Energy-Storage.news, grid operator AEMO forecasts that Australia will need 46GW/640GWh of energy storage by 2050 and recently said there was an ''urgent need'' for a ramp-up in investment in long-duration energy storage (LDES). Energy-Storage.news'' publisher Solar Media will host the 1st Energy Storage Summit Asia
US military trials new energy storage tech to support advance
US forward operating bases such as this one in southern Afghanistan could in the future rely on ESS Tech''s iron-flow batteries. whose company has received backing from Bill Gates'' Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund among others, said the project will "demonstrate the critical role of energy storage for energy security in remote and
ARENA pledges funding support to 4.2GWh of
Energy storage looks set to get policy support on a much grander scale soon, with Australia''s federal energy minister Chris Bowen and state energy ministers making a recent agreement to launch tenders for
ARENA pledges funding support to 4.2GWh of
Energy storage looks set to get policy support on a much grander scale soon, with Australia''s federal energy minister Chris Bowen and state energy ministers making a recent agreement to launch tenders for dispatchable, energy storage-backed renewable energy.. Energy-Storage.news'' publisher Solar Media will host the 1st Energy Storage Summit Asia, 11-12 July