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. 

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. 

Two US companies, GridStor, and CPS Energy are making advancements on Texas energy storage deployments, with GridStor executing a tolling agreement and CPS Energy issuing a new request for proposals.