Infrastructure investor Actis has entered the Polish energy storage market with the acquisition of two large-scale projects from DTEK’s DRI, while R.Power and Solax have announced project updates in the country. 

BESS owner-operator Return has put its 100MW/200MWh Antares BESS in the Netherlands into commercial operation, the largest to have reached that stage in the country as far as we know.

Annual battery energy storage system (BESS) failures per-deployed-GWh declined 99% globally between 2018 and 2025, as installed BESS capacity grew exponentially.

Eku Energy has signed CBAs with Gladstone Regional Council and Western Downs Regional Council for two BESS projects in Queensland.

US energy holding company and project developer-owner NextEra Energy has suspended operations at two energy storage facilities in Long Island, New York, US.

UK market’s shifting dynamics see listed fund Gore Street’s shareholders take key vote while CIP and BW ESS progress 4-hour duration battery storage assets at significant scale.

BESS owner-operator BW ESS has launched construction on its second large-scale project in Italy in the space of a month, while developers Galileo and Aura Power have progressed portfolios in the country. 

Having just begun construction on a 2.8GWh BESS in Belgium, Giga Storage has progressed its 1.4GWh project in Germany to the ready-to-build stage.

EDF Power Solutions Australia has referred a wind-plus-storage project featuring an 800MWh BESS for assessment under Australia’s EPBC Act.

e-STORAGE has signed an agreement to supply and commission a 100MW/200MWh BESS for OX2’s Muswellbrook solar-plus-storage site in Australia.