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Coal India and EDF India representatives signing a term sheet to collaborate on pumped hydro and other hydroelectric facilities. Image: Coal India.

Adani Green Energy to build 1,250MW pumped hydro plant in Uttar Pradesh, India

February 28, 2025
Adani Green Energy has been awarded a 1,250MW pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) project in Uttar Pradesh, India.
Sungrow and Sun Village representatives at the contract signing in Tokyo, Japan. Image: Sungrow.

Sungrow to deploy 500MWh BESS ‘across Japan’ with developer Sun Village

February 27, 2025
Sungrow has agreed to supply ‘approximately’ 500MWh of battery storage technology to Sun Village, a Japanese solar PV project developer.
Battery storage equipment and transmission infrastructure at a solar-plus-storage project in Chhattisgarh, India. Image: Ministry of New and Renewable Energy via Government of India Press Information Bureau.

India’s Central Electricity Authority recommends energy storage requirement for solar PV tenders

February 26, 2025
The Indian Central Electricity Authority has advised state utilities and all renewable energy implementing agencies to co-locate energy storage systems (ESS) with solar PV in future tenders.
Egypt's minister for electricity and renewable energy Dr Mahmoud Esmat (centre) at the signing of the CPAs. Image: AMEA Power

Egypt: Government signs contracts for country’s first standalone battery storage projects

February 26, 2025
Egypt’s government has signed contracts with developer AMEA Power for two large-scale battery energy storage projects, the country’s first.
LG Energy Solution at the RE+ clean energy trade event in Anaheim, California, September 2024. Image: Andy Colthorpe / Solar Media

LG ES to invest US$1.4 billion in US stationary storage cell manufacturing

February 25, 2025
LG ES will begin production of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cells for stationary energy storage applications in the US this year.
The Big Debate: Where are the Hottest European Storage Markets?’ at Energy Storage Summit EU 2025. Image: Andy Colthorpe / Solar Media
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‘A good market is one where you can get something done’: Europe’s BESS potential in focus

February 20, 2025
Germany and the UK are currently Europe’s ‘hottest’ markets for battery storage, but others present exciting opportunities, too.
Energy Storage Summit EU 2025 keynote speaker Brent Wanner of the International Energy Agency. Image: Andy Colthorpe / Solar Media

Energy Storage Summit EU 2025: Co-location, avoided emissions and Europe’s hottest markets

February 19, 2025
Our coverage of the Energy Storage Summit EU 2025, Europe’s biggest industry conference, continues with Day 2.
ESN editor Andy Colthorpe (left) moderating a special 'ask-me-anything' panel with representatives from Gore Street Capital, NEOM, BW ESS, Eku Energy and Field Energy. Image: Solar Media

Energy Storage Summit EU 2025: Day One at Europe’s biggest industry conference

February 18, 2025
The Energy-Storage.news team brings you daily highlights and insights from the Energy Storage Summit EU in London, UK.
Figure 1. Global grid-scale BESS deployment and failure statistics - sourced from the EPRI BESS Failure Incident Database and Wood Mackenzie data.

Effective battery storage fire safety involves going beyond standards

February 18, 2025
Fire safety should always be the BESS industry’s top priority and there are effective steps to achieve it, writes Angus Moodie, engineering manager at consultancy Enertis Applus+.
BW ESS and MIRAI Power's joint development agreement signed last week will target 1GWh of projects in southern Germany. Image: BW ESS.

Germany: ‘Europe’s hottest energy storage market for developers’

February 17, 2025
Germany is currently the “hottest market in Europe today from a development perspective,” according to battery storage developer-investor BW ESS.

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US grid-scale BESS market could shrink by almost a third in 2026, Wood Mackenzie says

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