Toronto, Ontario-headquartered Hydrostor has secured a US$200 million investment for its advanced compressed air energy storage (A-CAES) projects both in Canada and globally.

Fire safety should always be the BESS industry’s top priority and there are effective steps to achieve it, writes Angus Moodie, engineering manager at consultancy Enertis Applus+.

Luma Energy, the US-Canadian joint venture (JV) responsible for the Puerto Rican electricity distribution network will build nine energy interconnection points with Linxon US LLC and their partner AtkinsRéalis Caribe, to integrate renewable energy projects.

A total of 5.2GW/13.8GWh of grid-scale BESS capacity came online in January 2025, of which over two thirds was in China.

Fluence has launched a new AC-based modular battery storage platform for delivery in the fourth quarter of this year.

The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Sun Tribe and ENGIE will deploy a solar and battery storage portfolio at former coal mine sites in the Appalachians, US.

Energy storage optimisation specialist Habitat Energy has signed an agreement with Octopus Energy US to optimise a 50MW/100MWh tolled battery energy storge system (BESS) in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) market.

The Moss Landing BESS fire has focused attention on safety, as Aaron Marks at Clean Energy Associates (CEA), takes a closer look.

UBS Asset Management has selected data analytics software company ACCURE to optimise a portfolio of battery storage assets in Texas, US.

IPP Cordelio Power has procured over 1GWh of battery energy storage system (BESS) equipment with US-headquartered energy storage system integrator and renewable energy services provider Fluence Energy.