It’s our first week back to normal service so here’s a roundup of the past few weeks of BESS action in Europe, with projects moving forward in Romania, Denmark, UK, France, Spain, Albania, Germany and Austria.
Giriraj Rathore, senior director of global business development at Hithium, discusses market and technology development dynamics as part of our annual Q&A series.
Three battery energy storage system (BESS) developments across Australia have been submitted to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act, representing a combined capacity of 1,220MWh.
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IPP Zelestra and utility EDP’s recent PPA deal for a solar-plus-storage project in Spain was the first of its kind in Europe and ‘moves the market forward’, a Zelestra executive told Energy-Storage.news.
Western Australia has launched the fourth round of its Clean Energy Innovation Grants programme, prioritising long-duration energy storage.
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The Board of Supervisors (BoS) for Arizona’s Pinal County has given the go-ahead to developer and IPP esVolta to construct 3.2GWh BESS within its unincorporated territory, and two utilities are in talks to procure some of its capacity.
The EU Batteries Regulation came into force in 2023, but its various stipulations become law over the next several years. What does it mean for Europe’s BESS developers, operators and suppliers?
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Features, Interviews
January 9, 2026
Javier Savolainen of Wärtsilä explains how Australia’s battery storage and pumped hydro fleet have been impacted by the current heatwave.
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January 9, 2026
Yanara has appointed Gamuda Australia as the project delivery partner for the early contractor involvement (ECI) phase of the Mortlake Energy Hub in Victoria.
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January 8, 2026
US vehicle-to-grid (V2G) tech startup Nuvve has revealed stationary storage projects and partnerships in Asia, North America and Europe as the company broadens its focus.
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January 8, 2026
News from Canada, as NB Power issues a request for expressions of interest for 50MW of energy storage, while Boralex commissions its energy storage project with Walpole Island First Nation.
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January 8, 2026
H.I.G. Capital-backed energy platform, Greenflash Infrastructure, has Safe Harboured more than 10GWh of lithium-ion (Li-ion) energy storage capacity.
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January 8, 2026
Australia-based battery technology firm Altech Batteries has received a binding conditional funding approval for a sodium-chloride solid-state battery manufacturing facility in Germany.
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January 8, 2026
Four projects have been selected in Peninsular Malaysia’s first programme to build large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) facilities.
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January 7, 2026
A roundup of updates on BESS projects from SolarMax, Energy Vault, Engie, and Spearmint in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) market.
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January 7, 2026
On 19 December, a fire occurred at energy storage developer Convergent Energy & Power’s Church Street Battery Storage Facility in Warwick, New York, US.
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January 7, 2026
Fresh off the New Year holiday, Chinese energy storage companies have rolled out successive updates on their IPO progress.

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