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.

Four-hour battery storage is less expensive than open-cycle gas turbines in the 43 markets in which both technologies were modelled, according to a new report from market research firm Wood Mackenzie.

US energy storage developer Flatiron Energy has closed on approximately US$850 million for its 1,200MWh Energizar energy storage project in Chelsea, Massachusetts, 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.

Energy storage owner-operator Nightpeak Energy has reached financial close and commercial operation on its 150MW/300MWh Bocanova 2 battery storage project in Brazoria County, Southeast Texas.

From the Midwest to New York, local and state governments are introducing new zoning rules and restrictions on BESS and data centre projects.

How similar is the technology of Exa Energy, which just connected a 100MW/1GWh carbon dioxide-based energy storage system to the grid in China, to that of Energy Dome?  

Insufficient progress has been made towards the Energy Storage and Grids Pledge, endorsed by dozens of countries at COP29 two years ago.

The expert judges’ difficult decisions to select winners from hundreds of worthy entries for the Energy Storage Awards 2026 are almost finalised.

The Illinois Power Agency (IPA) is seeking stakeholder feedback on its summer procurement of 600MW of energy storage projects in the US state, after falling short by 438MW.