We hear from IPP Zelestra about its decision not to proceed in Italy’s MACSE auction and the auction’s wider implications on demand for private tolls.

Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks with Phil Tonkin, field chief technology officer at Dragos, and Dr. Peter Fox-Penner, a Brattle principal, on BESS cybersecurity.

Battery storage is the technology best suited to handling the power fluctuations that AI training loads can create at data centres, ESN Premium has heard.

Fresh off the New Year holiday, Chinese energy storage companies have rolled out successive updates on their IPO progress.

Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks with Giovanni Damato, redox flow battery developer CMBlu’s North American President, about using its technology to help meet energy demands.

In a surprising move, the North American development arm of Engie has asked the California Energy Commission (CEC) to pause the review of its Compass Energy Storage project destined for Orange County, in order to assess alternative development sites. 

IPP Zelestra and utility EDP’s recent PPA deal for a solar-plus-storage project in Spain was the first of its kind in Europe and ‘moves the market forward’, a Zelestra executive told Energy-Storage.news.

“A multi-stream revenue stacking model” made it possible for Pacifico Energy to self-fund a new grid-scale battery storage project in Japan.

California Community Choice Aggregator (CCA) Clean Power Alliance (CPA) last week (8 December 2025) moved one step closer to executing agreements for offtake with two companies developing innovative thermal battery storage projects. 

Ford Motor Company’s entry into the “fiercely competitive” energy storage market is a “big strategic pivot,” but one that makes sense, ESN Premium has heard.