In this US news roundup, we have financing updates for GridStor, Arevon, and Primergy, related to energy storage projects in Texas, California, and Nevada, respectively.
Australia’s battery energy storage sector faces mounting operational pressures, following the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) issuing its latest direction to AGL’s Torrens Island battery energy storage system (BESS) on 9 March.
California’s rapid adoption of energy storage has been a major success, but market participation is complex and competitive, write Matt Drazenovich of TWAICE and Chris Swanson of Fullmark Energy.
Recently, utility Xcel Energy announced it would install 30GWh of US startup Form Energy’s iron-air batteries at a data centre in Pine Island, Minnesota, owned by tech giant Google.
Global long-duration energy storage (LDES) deployment figures soared in 2025, but newer technologies risk being outcompeted by the incumbent, lithium-ion (Li-ion).
Joshua Murphy, head of energy storage for IPP Econergy, met with Energy-Storage.news for a video interview to discuss various business and financial topics at the Energy Storage Summit 2026 in London last month.
Residential energy storage startup Base Power is collaborating with utility Denton County Electric Cooperative (CoServ) to deploy 100MW of residential energy storage across North Texas, US.
