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Blathnaid O'Dea pv magazine
Blathnaid O'Dea pv magazine

Blathnaid O’Dea

Blathnaid is Features Editor with pv magazine Global. Prior to joining the team in 2024, she specialized in writing feature-length articles about STEM careers. She also covered news, including some of Ireland’s renewable energy announcements over the past few years.

Articles written by Blathnaid O’Dea

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Projects & Applications
Airengy, Hagag Europe to build 5 GWh compressed-air energy storage plant in Romania Hagag Europe and Airengy’s Romania project will harness the latter’s long duration energy storage AirBattery technology with underground salt caverns to eventually reach 5 GWh storage capacity. Airengy told ESS News commercial operation is likely to begin in early 2028.
Blathnaid O’Dea
Jun 12, 2026
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Projects & Applications
Flatland 800 MWh BESS goes online in Arizona as Waymo launches EV reuse deal From a traditional standalone, grid-scale battery energy storage (BESS) in Arizona to an initiative turning second-life electric vehicle batteries into grid storage, these US projects are doubling down on grid support.
Blathnaid O’Dea
Jun 11, 2026
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Markets
US government restricts trade with prominent Chinese storage companies CATL, BYD, JA Solar, Trina Solar, Three Gorges and Huawei are among those listed under the US Department of Defense's trade restriction, effective from 2027.
Blathnaid O’Dea
Jun 10, 2026
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Projects & Applications
600 MW LDES facility with green hydrogen electolyzer proposed in Ireland Irish developer Net Zero Energy says the proposed 600 MW long-duration energy storage (LDES) facility will convert excess renewable wind and solar generation into green hydrogen to be fed into the national grid.
Blathnaid O’Dea
Jun 10, 2026
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Projects & Applications
Centrica Energy to optimize Aukera Energy’s 340 MWh Belgian BESS Centrica Energy will optimize trading for Aukera’s 340 MWh Project Volt battery energy storage (BESS) project under construction in La Louviere, Belgium.
Blathnaid O’Dea
Jun 08, 2026
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Industry
‘China is the place to be’: Enervenue deploys first nickel-hydrogen pilot, targets 1 GWh production by 2027 “We are geopolitically independent. We are combining the best of both worlds: innovation from the US and creating our manufacturing footprint in China,” Henning Rath, newly appointed CEO, Enervenue, told ESS News from the company’s manufacturing base in Changzhou, China.
Blathnaid O’Dea
Jun 08, 2026
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Grid-scale
Japan BESS: How Energy Vault, Trina Storage, Itochu tailor their projects to local grid Energy Vault, Trina Storage and Itochu are to add more than 1.4 GWh of battery energy storage capacity (BESS) between them to Japan's grid by 2028.
Blathnaid O’Dea
Jun 04, 2026
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Projects & Applications
Hydrostor launches 4 GWh advanced compressed air energy storage project in Ontario The first 4 GWh phase of the Canadian developer’s Quinte Energy Storage Centre is expected to be operational in the early 2030s, with subsequent phases targeting 8 GWh to 16 GWh.
Blathnaid O’Dea
May 15, 2026
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Grid-scale
Germany, UK, Bulgaria: Europe’s top 3 co-location markets Germany led the way with the UK and Bulgaria tied in second place, followed by Spain, Hungary, and France.
Blathnaid O’Dea
May 13, 2026

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