BESS investments in the French market are moving to longer durations with saturation expected to hit the secondary reserve market, currently the main way operational projects make their money.

A panel at the Battery Asset Management Summit UK & Ireland 2026 last week discussed BESS capex trends and strategies to manage it.

In the wide-ranging conversation, Shaw starts off by describing the year-end rush as a perennial challenge for the battery energy storage system (BESS) sector in the US.

Around 20.4GWh of grid-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) came online globally last month, bringing the year-to-date (YTD) total to 208GWh.

James Costello of EORA Energy discusses the shift from supplying battery technology to developing full energy infrastructure projects.

Liam Critchley with an ESN Premium deep dive into availability, one of the most-discussed metrics in battery storage performance.

Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks with Claire Lang-Ree, clean energy advocate at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), about PJM’s proposed capacity market reforms.

Nearly 21GWh of grid-scale BESS came online globally last month, of which around a fifth was in Saudi Arabia while the majority was in China. 

Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks with Randolph Mann, CEO at developer esVolta at the 2026 US Battery Asset Management Summit in Garden Grove, California.

Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks with David Miller, CCO of optimiser Gridmatic, at the 2026 US Battery Asset Management Summit in Garden Grove, California.