The New Orleans, Louisiana, US City Council voted unanimously to approve a US$28 million virtual power plant (VPP) programme, reportedly, the first distributed energy resource (DER) programme in the city.

The Battery Asset Management Summit Europe earlier this month brought together operators, optimisers, software and hardware suppliers and more to discuss the big topics in BESS risk management, operation, commercialisation and optimisation. Read on for a summary of the key talking points.

As 2025 draws to a close, here’s a look back at a selection of Guest Blog contributions published by Energy-Storage.news over the past 12 months.

Renewable energy generator and retailer Flow Power has achieved financial close on a 100MW/223MWh battery storage project in Victoria, Australia.

The World Bank’s International Finance Corporation has agreed a financing package for a 1GW solar PV power plant paired with 600MWh of energy storage in Egypt.  

California Community Choice Aggregator (CCA) Clean Power Alliance (CPA) last week (8 December 2025) moved one step closer to executing agreements for offtake with two companies developing innovative thermal battery storage projects. 

Two US companies, GridStor, and CPS Energy are making advancements on Texas energy storage deployments, with GridStor executing a tolling agreement and CPS Energy issuing a new request for proposals.

Distributed energy resources (DERs) are emerging as potential solutions for consumers seeking independence and relief from rising energy costs.

Three BESS projects totalling 7.8GWh in Saudi Arabia have been connected to the electricity grid, technology provider Sungrow said.

It’s been a busy few weeks in the run-up to Christmas in Europe’s BESS project space, with M&A, final investment decisions (FID) and supplier deals in Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Italy, Finland, Romania and the UK totally around 800MW of capacity.