Western Australia’s ERA has proposed a Benchmark Reserve Capacity Price of AU$491,700/MW per year for the 2028-29 capacity year.

The Governors of Maryland and New Jersey have enacted legislation to accelerate the deployment of clean energy technologies in response to energy cost and supply concerns.

Tesla reported company-high energy storage deployments and revenue growth in 2025 but expects “low-cost competition” and policy factors to affect margins this year.

Redwood Energy announced the final closing of its Series E financing round, bringing the total raise to US$425 million.

By the end of December 2025, China’s cumulative installed capacity of new energy storage technologies including lithium-ion reached 144.7GW, representing an 85% year-on-year rise.

Battery energy storage projects have emerged as the dominant force in Australia’s energy investment landscape, accounting for 46% of the nation’s 64GW development pipeline, according to the Australian Energy Market Operator’s (AEMO) latest quarterly report.

“We see energy storage as an opportunity for (data centres) to reduce their impact on the grid”, said Patrick Hughes, Senior VP of Operations and Strategy at NEMA.

Lithium-ion companies have come out as the top-rated suppliers on a new long-duration energy storage (LDES) leaderboard, while CO2 Battery company Energy Dome is the highest non-lithium company.

European Union countries deployed record-breaking battery storage capacity for the 12th consecutive year in 2025.

Utility company Avista has selected projects as part of its request for proposal (RFP) process to identify new resources, including a 100MW battery energy storage system (BESS), for the Pacific Northwest, US.