Another roundup of user-posted hot takes and analysis from the energy storage industry recently.

AEMO has said that a record 9.1GW of new renewable energy and storage capacity connected to the National Electricity Market (NEM) in FY26.

Market research firm Wood Mackenzie stated that data centre buildout is uplifting the US battery energy storage system (BESS) outlook across all segments.

Results are in for New York’s first solicitations for large-scale energy storage resources, with 950MW of bids selected by NYSERDA.

Energy-Storage.news speaks with Nathan Picarsic, co-founder of Horizon Advisory, at the 2026 US Battery Asset Management and Solar and Storage Finance Summits in Garden Grove, California.

Nearly 21GWh of grid-scale BESS came online globally last month, of which around a fifth was in Saudi Arabia while the majority was in China. 

The US energy storage industry is targeting 225GW/1TWh of storage deployment by the end of 2032, according to an analysis published by the Energy Storage Coalition (ESC).

A roundup of some of our key takeaways from the Energy Storage Summit Germany this week, including around FCAs, inertia, the capacity market (CM), EU restrictions on China, and the future of one very notable system integrator.

Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks with Randolph Mann, CEO at developer esVolta at the 2026 US Battery Asset Management Summit in Garden Grove, California.

IHA has urged India to accelerate pumped storage through faster clearances, stronger revenues and improved coordination.