Another roundup of user-posted hot takes and analysis from the energy storage industry recently.

Spain-headquartered Power Electronics has opened a new factory in Houston, Texas, as the US market increasingly looks to build domestic content supply chains.

We recently caught up with Georg Gallmetzer, managing director of German BESS platform Eco Stor, about the firm’s role in formulating flexible connection agreements (FCAs) and how this was intimately tied to the debate on grid fees. 

Market research firm Wood Mackenzie stated that data centre buildout is uplifting the US battery energy storage system (BESS) outlook across all segments.

Results are in for New York’s first solicitations for large-scale energy storage resources, with 950MW of bids selected by NYSERDA.

Nvidia’s new qualification programme for products and solutions that meet its reference design requirements includes three battery storage solutions.  

Energy-Storage.news speaks with Nathan Picarsic, co-founder of Horizon Advisory, at the 2026 US Battery Asset Management and Solar and Storage Finance Summits in Garden Grove, California.

UK energy industry regulator Ofgem said it is minded to approve the introduction of a financial commitment for BESS in an attempt to reduce the oversupply of the projects awaiting a grid connection.

A flurry of project completions, financings and supplier deals for large-scale BESS across the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region, from Greenvolt, Renovatio & CATL, Eurowind, Renalfa, MOL Group, Tavion, MetaWealth and Enexus & Longi. 

Nearly 21GWh of grid-scale BESS came online globally last month, of which around a fifth was in Saudi Arabia while the majority was in China.