ARENA has committed AU$25 million to support startup Relectrify’s world-first ‘inverterless’ battery energy storage system (BESS).

A roundup of large-scale European BESS project news, with Principia completing a project in Greece, Repono buying one in Romania, Kyon choosing optimisers for two in Germany and Voltalia and NGEN targeting Portugal.

What is claimed to be the world’s largest industrial thermal energy storage ‘heat battery’ has gone into operation in California, US.

Ameresco has put Arizona’s largest behind-the-meter battery energy storage system (BESS) into operation, meanwhile Alliant Energy has begun operating Wisconsin’s largest BESS to-date.

Despite lowering its forecasts due to US-led tariff and policy disruptions, BNEF says 2025 will be a record-breaking year for energy storage.

Leading energy storage technology companies, developers, operators and outstanding individuals are featured on the shortlists for this year’s Energy Storage Awards (ESAs).

The non-profit Energy Policy Design Institute (EPDI) has launched the Virtual Power Plant (VPP) Convergence Project, with an advisory group that includes Jigar Shah, former director of the US Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office.

Production has begun at a battery energy storage system (BESS) factory designated as a project of strategic importance by the European Commission (EC) due to its use of local supply chains.

European Association for Storage of Energy (EASE), which represents 70 member organisations across the industry value chain, has undergone a rebrand.

Utility-scale developer SB Energy has received a US$25 million grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC) to purchase BESS units for one of its solar and storage hybrid complexes located in Riverside County, California.