New Zealand’s fragmented electricity market structure is creating both opportunities and obstacles for industrial battery storage, as demonstrated by CentrePort Wellington’s upcoming deployment.

Ex-Fluence alumnus Marek Kubik sat down with Energy-Storage.news at last month’s Energy Storage Summit 2026 in London to talk big picture BESS technology trends, including energy density, LDES and sodium-ion.

The New South Wales IPC has approved Ausgrid’s 400MWh Steel River East BESS located within the Hunter and Central Coast REZ.

Arevon, Banpu Power (BPP) and Energy Vault have made BESS project announcements totalling 1,550MWh of capacity in the US.

The legislative body of Nebraska, US, has advanced a bill to clarify and expand the state’s use of battery energy storage systems (BESS).

Tapas Peshin of energy management software provider PCI Energy Solutions, on one of the biggest changes in Texas’ ERCOT market for battery storage assets.

Envision Energy’s director of energy storage solutions, Michael Koller, speaks with Energy-Storage.news at Energy Storage Summit 2026 in London, UK.

5.5GWh of battery energy storage projects have been added to Australia’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.

Thimo Mueller, general manager of commercial at ASL, has urged that a ‘culture of collaboration’ will be key to New South Wales (NSW) achieving its energy storage targets.