AEMO has published its 2026 ESOO, finding a clearer pathway to maintaining a reliable electricity supply across the NEM in the coming decade.

US independent power producers (IPPs) Swift Current Energy and Avantus have secured financing for their pipelines and projects, respectively.

In this news roundup, Eos and WATTMORE; Gotion and Gamma Technologies; Middle River Power and PowerTransitions; and Electra AI and MinTech are advancing battery energy storage system (BESS) technology in the US.

DC-coupled solar-plus-storage projects can reduce the time needed for grid connection approval compared with AC-coupled designs.

Raafe Khan of Camelot Energy Group breaks down financial realities, market contradictions, and other dynamics shaping the energy storage space.

US lithium-sulphur battery company Lyten is aiming to acquire another of Europe’s failed homegrown battery startups, Norway’s Morrow Batteries, which went into bankruptcy earlier this year. 

Scott Murtishaw, executive director at the California Energy Storage Alliance, discusses local opposition, safety misconceptions, and why the state’s containerised projects have proven safe.

Invinity Energy Systems has hired an EPC partner for its gigawatt-hour-scale vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) energy storage project in Laufenberg, Switzerland.

Why should people take ESS Inc and its pivot to sodium-ion BESS seriously, having failed to deliver on its iron flow battery promises since going public in 2021? We catch up with new CEO Drew Buckley about how he hopes to turn the ship around.

Orchestrating battery storage components, containers, systems and portfolios is key to successful operation, says Ryan Franks.