A year of insights: Energy-Storage.news webinars in 2025

Energy storage systems (ESS) are critical for the energy transition, but ensuring their safety and reliability remains a top concern for developers, asset owners, and operators. In this in-depth webinar, Trina Storage unveils its latest advancements in system safety and fire risk mitigation strategies.

This session, co-branded with our colleagues at PV Tech, explores key challenges facing the energy storage industry today, including customer pain points around system risks, lifecycle management, and compliance with evolving safety standards. We learned how Trina Storage’s innovative designs and robust testing processes deliver solutions tailored to real-world conditions.

Grid connection limitations and their impacts on BESS development

With Clean Horizon, March 2025

One of the main limiting factors for BESS development in Europe is access to the grid. Indeed, with large amounts of renewable projects being deployed, the grid’s accommodation capacity is reaching saturation in almost all European countries.

Finding the correct grid connection option for a BESS project is therefore on the critical path of any BESS developer, typically with an even stronger priority than finding a suitable land plot. Clean Horizon’s expert team shares its observations and industry best practices used to continue developing storage projects.

Advancing Energy Storage in New York: A Two-Part Series

With NYSERDA, March 2025

Our first webinar in a series with the New York Energy Research and Development Agency (NYSERDA) focused on the US state’s journey to meet its 6GW by 2030 energy storage deployment target.

In part one of this two-part series, attendees learned about the energy storage landscape in New York and the integral role energy storage plays in advancing New York’s clean energy transition.

We heard about the state’s investments, institutions, resources, and programmes that comprise its energy storage ecosystem, making New York a hub for energy storage deployment and supply chain manufacturing.

Stay ahead of ERCOT and CAISO’s evolving battery storage revenue opportunities

With GridBeyond, May 2025

In the final quarter of last year alone, 9.5GWh of new utility-scale battery energy storage systems, or BESS, were deployed in the US.

Of these, 61% of projects were in California and Texas, home to the California Independent System Operator, or CAISO, and the Electricity Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, transmission systems and wholesale markets. Strategies for optimising BESS assets in California and Texas that offer the best return on investment demand both smart planning and responsiveness to market dynamics. This webinar provides an in-depth analysis of both short-term and medium-term trends in the power markets of ERCOT and CAISO.

The US Budget Bill: Implications for Energy Storage Markets & Manufacturing

With Intertek CEA, July 2025

In this webinar, Daniel Finn-Foley and Christian Roselund from Intertek CEA explored the pending changes to US clean energy tax credits (ITC/PTC and 45X), including new ‘prohibited foreign entity’ (PFE) restrictions and what these will mean for the nation’s battery sector.

Through a fascinating presentation based on CEA’s exhaustive research and the speaker’s analysis of the facts, we learned about everything from the new foreign entity of concern (FEOC) provisions to the evolving supplier landscape, to the rippling impact of policy changes across adjacent sectors like solar PV and electric vehicles (EVs).

How Analytics Enable Acute Problem-Solving for Distributed Energy Storage and Utility-Scale Bess

With PowerUp-Socomec, August 2025

Distributed energy storage delivers a wide variety of services that help end-users reduce electricity costs and CO2 emissions through peak shaving, self-consumption, EV charging, and backup power, while also supporting the grid with ancillary services. This diverse range of applications creates numerous challenges that must be identified and solved to optimize both the safety and performance of these assets.

Socomec and PowerUp share several use cases demonstrating how advanced battery analytics have successfully uncovered and resolved complex issues for end-users. These insights apply not only to smaller distributed energy storage systems but also to utility-scale assets, where the potential impact of problems is magnified due to their larger size. 

Extract More Value from Bess Assets in GB & Ireland, from Advanced Analytics to the Full Stack

With GridBeyond, September 2025

Maximising the full potential of large-scale battery storage requires far more than just a sophisticated trading approach. It demands a robust understanding of battery chemistry and degradation, accurate performance forecasting, and the ability to operationalise vast datasets in real time.

In this webinar, GridBeyond’s expert delve into the current revenue streams available to front-of-the-meter (FTM) battery storage assets in Great Britain (GB) and Ireland.

The webinar shows attendees inside the current revenue stack available to large-scale battery storage assets, unpacks how batteries generate value, explores where the next commercial opportunities lie, and how advanced analytics and AI-powered tools are transforming battery performance, optimisation, and longevity.

Operating a BESS for the First Time: Lessons Learned, Challenges Faced, and Analytics in Action

With TWAICE, September 2025

BESS assets are rapidly becoming a critical component of modern power systems. But what is it really like to operate one for the first time?

Watch this exclusive session to hear directly from the teams behind one of the biggest BESS deployments in the Central American and Caribbean region.

Industry leaders from InterEnergy and TWAICE present their real-world experience operating a BESS from the ground up. We learn about the unique challenges encountered—from system integration with PV assets to performance optimisation under dynamic grid conditions—and how decisions made early in the lifecycle can have long-term impacts. Attendees also gained insight into how data analytics software can become a powerful tool for optimising BESS performance, improving reliability, reducing operating costs, and anticipating failures.

LT2029 and the Future of Grid Stability: Envision’s Proven Solutions for Great Britain

With Envision Energy, September 2025

This webinar focuses on a topic that the global industry is gradually beginning to recognise: the need for low-carbon sources to provide system stability services traditionally played by thermal generation assets.

As the term strongly implies, these services, which include inertia and short-circuit ratio, are necessary for the stable functioning of the electricity grid.

The UK’s LT2029 is the first formal Y-4 market-based procurement designed to secure stability, reactive power, and restoration for the grid. This webinar unpacked the key requirements—from national inertia and location-specific reactive power needs to the role of anchor and top-up providers in restoration—and explained what they mean for market participants.

Demystifying the BESS performance metrics that matter most: SoC, SoH, cell imbalance and RTE

With Wärtsilä, October 2025

In the rapidly evolving global energy landscape, battery energy storage has emerged as a cornerstone for ensuring grid stability and efficiency. From helping stabilise data centre loads, to being deployed as a means of grid modernisation, to supporting the proliferation of renewables, as the world transitions towards widespread electrification, the role of BESS becomes increasingly critical.

However, misunderstood metrics are quietly eroding the performance and profitability of these systems.

Wärtsilä battery analytics experts Andrea Meister and Steve Merrick present a critical session that cuts through the confusion surrounding state of charge (SoC), state of health (SoH), cell imbalance, and round-trip efficiency (RTE)—parameters that directly impact real-time operations and revenue.