Welcome to the first edition of In Case You Missed It (ICYMI), a recap of last week’s biggest news stories in energy storage.

Second life energy storage firm B2U Storage Solutions has announced a strategic partnership with South Korean battery giant LG Energy Solution (LG ES).

Recently, US BESS companies Energy Vault and Goshe, SMT Energy and Climate Adaptive Infrastructure, and NeoVolta and SK On have made major deals and secured strategic partnerships.

Spain-headquartered Power Electronics has opened a new factory in Houston, Texas, as the US market increasingly looks to build domestic content supply chains.

Market research firm Wood Mackenzie stated that data centre buildout is uplifting the US battery energy storage system (BESS) outlook across all segments.

Results are in for New York’s first solicitations for large-scale energy storage resources, with 950MW of bids selected by NYSERDA.

Nvidia’s new qualification programme for products and solutions that meet its reference design requirements includes three battery storage solutions.  

Energy-Storage.news speaks with Nathan Picarsic, co-founder of Horizon Advisory, at the 2026 US Battery Asset Management and Solar and Storage Finance Summits in Garden Grove, California.

GridStor, a US-based developer and operator of grid-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) has closed a US$220 million financing agreement for the 100MW/400MWh White Tank project in Arizona, US.

Compressed air energy storage (CAES) holds much promise for large-scale, LDES, but has struggled to get off the ground outside of China.