On the first morning of the Energy Storage Summit, an expert panel faced pressing questions from Europe’s energy storage professionals.

Australia’s Edify Energy has confirmed that its 185MW/370MWh Koorangie BESS in Victoria has started exporting to the grid.

Allegro Energy, an Australian-based developer of water-based redox flow battery energy storage solutions, has been awarded AU$1.85 million (US$1.17 million) in federal government funding to scale its technology.

Australia’s Victoria government has fast-tracked the approval process for a 1.8GWh battery energy storage system (BESS) being pursued by developer Birdwood Energy.

EV and BESS firm BYD has agreed a major order from the Saudi Electricity Company, the state utility and transmission & distribution (T&D) system operator of Saudi Arabia.

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

Queensland Hydro is set to progress the development of its 48GWh Borumba site despite government concerns about its viability in Australia.

The New South Wales government has revealed that its green bank, the Energy Security Corporation, will invest in short to long-duration energy storage (LDES) projects as part of its first Investment Mandate.

Luma Energy, the US-Canadian joint venture (JV) responsible for the Puerto Rican electricity distribution network will build nine energy interconnection points with Linxon US LLC and their partner AtkinsRéalis Caribe, to integrate renewable energy projects.

A total of 5.2GW/13.8GWh of grid-scale BESS capacity came online in January 2025, of which over two thirds was in China.