India’s Union Cabinet has approved US$ 19.3 billion Green Energy Corridor, including US$ 5.2 billion for 50GWh BESS through FY2032-33.

Welcome to another edition of hot takes, snap analysis, gossip and of course, valuable insights from the LinkedIn feeds of energy storage and electricity insiders.

Renalfa IPP and Eurowind have brought a large-scale hybrid renewables project, featuring 242MWp of solar PV and 773MWh of battery storage, into commercial operation in Bulgaria.

Elliot Squire, senior asset manager for Varco Energy, discusses current and future trends in battery storage.

Northland Power has closed financing on two large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in Poland.

Fu-Gen has sold a 100MW ready-to-build battery storage project in Finland to Nala Renewables, extending their Nordic BESS pipeline to 275MW.

Maharashtra’s electricity regulator has proposed mandatory BESS for renewable projects seeking grid connectivity.

Update 2 October 2026: The financial impact of the write-down to Wärtsilä’s full-year 2026 is expected to be significantly less than initially communicated.

Energy-Storage.news spoke with Noemí Gallardo, Commissioner at the California Energy Commission (CEC), at the US Solar & Storage Finance event in Garden Grove, California, about the growth of BESS within the state.

Sungrow has completed grid connection and full acceptance testing of a 108.4MW/215.6MWh grid-forming BESS in Cambodia.