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.
Energy held in battery energy storage systems (BESS) across Australia’s NEM reached a record 20.17GWh on 6 November.
India’s Union government has approved the next IR145 billion phase of Viability Gap Funding (VGP) for energy storage capacity additions.
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We catch up with the CEO of Netherlands-headquartered system integrator Alfen to discuss its sodium-ion BESS partnership with CATL and plans for the technology in Europe.
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.
Welcome to our latest BESS Industry Buzz, this week featuring the US midterms, ultra-rapid BESS commissioning, how to calculate RTE and a cybersecurity incident in Chile.

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November 10, 2026
Battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in Japan by Sumitomo Corporation and Greenvolt provide an interesting snapshot of the country’s development landscape.
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November 10, 2026
Power firms RWE and BNZ have both announced construction on large-scale BESS projects in Italy, all-in-all totalling nearly 500MWh of capacity.
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November 10, 2026
BESS owner-operator NGEN has put its Å ibenik project into commercial operation in Croatia, claiming it as the first standalone project to connect at the transmission-level.
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November 10, 2026
Energy-Storage.news proudly presents our sponsored webinar with Argent International, ‘New Ways to Improve BESS Thermal and Dielectric Performance.’
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November 10, 2026
Two Australian BESS projects in South Australia and Victoria have been submitted to the federal government under the EPBC Act.
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November 10, 2026
Australia’s federal Cheaper Home Batteries Program has passed 600,000 home battery storage systems sold, roughly 16.8GWh.
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November 9, 2026
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.
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November 9, 2026
Australian renewable energy generator and retailer Pacific Blue has referred an 855MWh BESS in Victoria to Australia’s EPBC Act.
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November 6, 2026
Renewables developer D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI) and Ford Motor Company’s energy storage subsidiary, Ford Energy, will partner to deploy energy storage in the US.
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November 6, 2026
Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), the asset management unit of the central bank of Norway, has acquired a 10% interest in North American battery storage developer-operator Aypa Power.

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