“Australia remains a multi-gigawatt proving ground for utility-scale energy storage systems,” says Kashish Shah of Wärtsilä Energy Storage.

IPP Lydian Energy has secured US$689 million in financing for two solar projects and a battery energy storage system (BESS) project in New Mexico, Texas, and Utah, US.

Another roundup of European BESS news, but this time around portfolios, partnerships, investments, financing, optimisation and tolling in France, Spain, Belgium, Denmark, Finland and Romania. Notable highlights are Grenergy’s 10-year BESS toll in Spain and Ingrid Capacity entering the French market.

More needs to be done to cement energy storage’s vital role in European energy resilience, writes Teresa Casacchia, head of storage at Baywa r.e.

Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has commenced commercial operations for the 619MWh Stage One of its Supernode battery energy storage system (BESS) project, located at the South Pine substation in Queensland, Australia.

Australia’s Clean Energy Council has said that 2025 saw as many battery energy storage systems commissioned as in the last 8 years combined.

Residential energy storage startup Base Power and utility El Paso Electric Company (EPE) have announced a new residential distributed energy resource (DER) pilot programme in Texas, US.

A busy week of large-scale BESS projects news from the Eastern side of Europe, with projects reaching commissioning, final investment decision, technology procurement and acquisition, led by KNESS’ 2GWh partnership with Hithium in Ukraine.

The venture capital (VC) arm of Caterpillar has invested in ElevenEs, a startup building a gigawatt-hour-scale lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cell factory in Europe.