Energy firm RWE added 2GW to its US operating capacity in 2025, bringing its total operational capacity to nearly 13GW across the country.

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.

Octopus Australia has broken ground on the 486MWh Blind Creek Solar Farm and Battery site in New South Wales (NSW).

The NSW Independent Planning Commission has approved Edify Energy’s 400MWh Burroway solar-plus-storage project in Australia.

Hanjung America, a subsidiary of South Korea-based battery manufacturer Hanjung NCS, will build its first US energy storage system (ESS) manufacturing facility in Huntington, Indiana, US.

Energy-Storage.news speaks with Isshu Kikuma, energy storage analyst at BloombergNEF (BNEF), ahead of the upcoming Energy Storage Summit USA.