As the BESS industry matures, the trend towards a closening relationship between OEMs and project owners looks set to continue, but system integrators will continue to have a role to play.

The New South Wales government has announced plans to launch a new tender seeking 500MW of firming capacity, seeking bids from battery energy storage, gas and virtual power plants (VPP).

Australia’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has announced it has invested a record AU$4.7 billion (US$3.09 billion) in large-scale renewables, energy storage, and transmission projects during the 12-month period ending 30 June 2025.

LG Energy Solution (LG ES) will nearly double the production capacity of battery cells for energy storage systems (ESS) at its Michigan, US, factory by the end of 2026.

DP Energy has announced plans to build a wind-plus-storage project in Queensland, Australia, featuring up to 2,000MWh of BESS.

Google has partnered with and made a strategic investment in carbon dioxide-based long-duration energy storage (LDES) company Energy Dome.

CS Energy has said its 200MW/400MWh Greenbank battery energy storage system has started commercial operations in Queensland, Australia.

Australia-based battery energy storage system (BESS) developer, owner and operator Stor-Energy has announced plans to build a 1,449MWh 8-hour duration BESS.

CEA has recently released two battery energy storage system (BESS) reports for Q2 2025, the Energy Storage System Price Forecasting Report and the ESS Supply, Technology, and Policy Report.

Steady price falls the past few years have made lithium-ion BESS a real contender for long-duration energy storage (LDES), and that is now reflected in global project pipelines.