IESA president Debmalya Sen talks us through the highlights and challenges of the past year, as India gets to grips with market development and acceleration.

Global infrastructure investor I Squared Capital has launched ANZA Power, a next-generation independent power producer (IPP) in Australia and New Zealand.

BlackRock-backed Akaysha Energy has commenced operations at its 205MW/410MWh Brendale battery energy storage system (BESS) in Queensland, Australia, delivering the project close to five months ahead of the original schedule.

FranklinWH and ConnectDER have had their respective battery and electric meter technologies enrolled into programmes in Arizona expected to accelerate the take-up of home batteries for virtual power plants (VPPs).

US-based iron-sodium battery manufacturer Inlyte Energy has successfully completed a factory acceptance test of its first field-ready battery at its facility near Derby, UK, witnessed by representatives from US utility Southern Company.

Virtual BESS tolling platform startup Terralayr has raised €192 million (US$223 million), primarily for its own build-own-operate BESS pipeline. CEO Philipp Man spoke to Energy-Storage.news about the funding round and growing its capacity virtualisation and tolling platform.

Australian thermal energy storage company 1414 Degrees has received critical regulatory approval from AEMO for its 140MW Aurora BESS.

A staggering total of 18GW/65GWh of large-scale BESS came online in China last month, accounting for a quarter of the total capacity deployed across the globe in 2025.

Duke Energy, Elevate Renewables, and Fluence Energy, along with BrightNight and Cordelio Power, are advancing BESS projects across the BESS.

Fluence senior VP and chief enterprise operations officer Roman Loosen explains how 2025 saw energy storage go from “important” to “essential.”