US retail giant Walmart has made a strategic investment in home battery storage firm Base Power, while Sunrun has doubled the size of its home battery VPP in Puerto Rico.

Democrats scored major victories in the US Midterm elections, taking both the House and Senate and flipping several long-held Republican strongholds, with changes likely to occur in the clean energy sector.

BESS owner-operator Return has secured an €835 million (US$938 million) portfolio financing underwritten by Deutsche Bank and Rabobank to expand its BESS activities in Germany.

Eku Energy has fully commissioned its 250MW/500MWh Williamsdale BESS in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).

Three developers have secured debt and equity for solar PV, wind and battery storage projects across Australia and New Zealand.

The Democrats have won the House and the Senate in the US Midterm elections, dealing a blow to the Trump administration and sending Chinese and Korean battery share prices upwards.

LG Energy Solution saw 28% quarter-on-quarter growth in revenue in Q3 2026, with “significant energy storage system (ESS) shipment growth” among the main drivers.

BESS owner-operators Return and BW ESS have financed and acquired large-scale projects in Spain and France, respectively, totalling a little over 1GWh.

The European Union is treading the wrong path on battery regulation, according to industry groups from battery, energy storage, electric mobility and adjacent sectors.

Australia has finished trialling grid-forming battery storage for system security services and needs contracts signed within two years.