A jury has found in favour of Consumers Energy and DTE Energy in their case against Toshiba for “defective” work to upgrade a pumped hydro facility.

In this Energy-Storage.news roundup,  Hydrostor receives permitting approval for its California project, Hawaiian Electric is set to begin construction on a Maui battery energy storage system (BESS) and Peregrine and Wärtsilä advance construction of a Texas BESS.

As we welcome the end of another year and greet the next, here are the top 10 most-read news stories from 2025.

Our selection of Guest Blogs published over the past year continues, featuring entries from July to December.

The New Orleans, Louisiana, US City Council voted unanimously to approve a US$28 million virtual power plant (VPP) programme, reportedly, the first distributed energy resource (DER) programme in the city.

Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks with CEO of optimisation platform provider Ascend Analytics, Dr. Gary Dorris, PhD, about navigating ERCOT’s revenue opportunities and the implementation of RTC+B.

Energy-Storage.news proudly presents our sponsored webinar with NYSERDA, ‘Discover how New York powers energy storage innovation’.

As 2025 draws to a close, here’s a look back at a selection of Guest Blog contributions published by Energy-Storage.news over the past 12 months.

Building US domestic energy storage manufacturing capacity will require more than limiting foreign participation, writes Aaron Marks of Intertek CEA.

The board of trustees for New York Power Authority (NYPA) last week gave the greenlight for the public power organisation to develop an additional 1.2GW of storage as part of its renewed Strategic Plan for New Renewable Energy Generation.