Australia’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has announced it has invested a record AU$4.7 billion (US$3.09 billion) in large-scale renewables, energy storage, and transmission projects during the 12-month period ending 30 June 2025.

Lithium-ion battery storage system integrator Fluence and independent power producer (IPP) Invenergy will be partnering on the 475MW solar and 1,900MWh energy storage Hashknife Solar Energy Centre in Navajo County, Arizona, US.

LG Energy Solution (LG ES) will nearly double the production capacity of battery cells for energy storage systems (ESS) at its Michigan, US, factory by the end of 2026.

Renalfa IPP has secured a €315 million (US$367 million) financing package from an EBRD-led consortium to support a 1.6GW renewables, 3.3GWh BESS rollout in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and North Macedonia.

DP Energy has announced plans to build a wind-plus-storage project in Queensland, Australia, featuring up to 2,000MWh of BESS.

California’s largest electric utility is continuing its push to establish a net-zero energy system by 2040, finalising an offtake agreement for 1.8GWh of battery storage capacity with Aypa Power.

Estuary Power has commenced operations of the 185MW solar, 400MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) Escape project in Lincoln County, Nevada, US.

Google has partnered with and made a strategic investment in carbon dioxide-based long-duration energy storage (LDES) company Energy Dome.

CS Energy has said its 200MW/400MWh Greenbank battery energy storage system has started commercial operations in Queensland, Australia.

Australia-based battery energy storage system (BESS) developer, owner and operator Stor-Energy has announced plans to build a 1,449MWh 8-hour duration BESS.