It seems bizarre that just as battery energy storage is set to take off, with companies like Fluence this week citing a record order book and sales of 2.3 GWh, that one player, NEC Energy Solutions appears to be going out of the business. Bloomberg ran an article this week, based on documents it has seen, which suggest that the company is on a maintenance only base as of now, but will honor all support activities and slowly wind the business down. It seems to be officially up for sale, but during the pandemic no buyers have come forward, so a decision in principle has been taken to simply shut up shop. We have asked it on multiple continents for…