The energy storage industry is abuzz with discussion of passing BAAJA following Democrats’ taking of the House and Senate in the 2026 US midterm elections.

Alectra Energy Solutions and Convergent Energy & Power have completed a 320MWh BESS portfolio at three sites in Ontario.

Battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in Japan by Sumitomo Corporation and Greenvolt provide an interesting snapshot of the country’s development landscape.

Power firms RWE and BNZ have both announced construction on large-scale BESS projects in Italy, all-in-all totalling nearly 500MWh of capacity.

BESS owner-operator NGEN has put its Šibenik project into commercial operation in Croatia, claiming it as the first standalone project to connect at the transmission-level.

Two Australian BESS projects in South Australia and Victoria have been submitted to the federal government under the EPBC Act.

Australia’s federal Cheaper Home Batteries Program has passed 600,000 home battery storage systems sold, roughly 16.8GWh.

A new report prepared by The Brattle Group for The Pew Charitable Trusts finds that removing barriers to distributed energy resources (DERs) could avoid an estimated US$614 billion in US power system costs through 2050.

Derrick Flakoll, senior policy associate for North America at BloombergNEF, has offered a more measured take on how the Democrats’ midterm victories could affect the battery energy storage system (BESS) sector.

Australian renewable energy generator and retailer Pacific Blue has referred an 855MWh BESS in Victoria to Australia’s EPBC Act.