Our collection of user-posted analysis, views, and unofficial news, gathered from our networks on LinkedIn, returns for its third outing.

The global battery energy storage market is entering a new phase, with shifting cell prices, intensifying competition and rapid international expansion reshaping the supplier landscape.

Trade association Energy Storage Canada (ESC) has recommended establishing a Distributed Reliability Track for behind-the-meter (BTM) and distribution-connected energy storage in Ontario.

Ayala’s ACEN Corp has loaned PHP9 billion (US$144 million) to subsidiaries within the group for renewable energy and battery storage projects.

PJM has proposed a major overhaul of how it procures power capacity in response to surging data centre demand that has driven auction prices up more than 1,000% in two years and threatens to add US$70 per month to average household electricity bills by 2028.

Aukera has closed a €460 million (US$534.23 million) structured credit facility to advance its project pipeline in five European markets.

EPC Renewables has signed an MoU with state-linked utility Energy Fiji Limited for the development of the Yaqara Solar & Battery Project.

Tech giant Google, Tesla, utility Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), and distributed energy resource (DER)-focused company Sunrun are launching a new virtual power plant (VPP) in California, US.

Pakistan’s National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has approved plans to require bidders in a renewable energy auction to include energy storage.

EDF Power Solutions Australia has referred the Wala Wala Pumped Hydro Energy Storage project, a 300-400MW facility in NSW.