There’s been a flurry of project completions across Europe this past week, with projects completed in Germany, Estonia, Belgium, Denmark and Bulgaria by RheinEnergie/SMA, BSP, BStor, European Energy and Sunotec respectively, totalling nearly 700MWh of capacity.

We analyse recent details that have emerged on battery OEM CATL’s zero-degradation BESS technology, which was first announced two years ago.

A shift is happening in Europe’s commercial & industrial (C&I) energy storage market, and integrated energy storage solutions provider Hithium is addressing this demand with a purpose-built 4-hour solution. 

Gloucester Coa has received planning approval from the New South Wales government for the 3.6GWh Stratford Pumped Hydro and Solar project.

Avantus, with Fluence, is progressing on two solar-plus-battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in California, US.

Some 9.1GW/33.5GWh of large-scale BESS came online globally last month, with Saudi Arabia accounting for over one-third of the figure.

Australia’s federal government has added 11 new generation and energy storage projects to its National Renewable Energy Priority List.

Australia’s CSIRO has revised pumped hydro storage costs upward in the final version of its annual GenCost electricity cost report.

We caught up with the CCO of Netherlands-headquartered startup Moonwatt at last month’s Smarter E Europe trade show in Munich for a video interview.

According to Lazard’s annual benchmarking report, the levelised cost of storage (LCOS) of utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) in the US has risen, reversing declines reported in the 2025 edition.