BESS investments in the French market are moving to longer durations with saturation expected to hit the secondary reserve market, currently the main way operational projects make their money.

Two major schemes will drive Southeast Asian country’s deployments but require close examination, writes Flora Zhang, market analyst at Malaysia Energy Storage Association (MESA).

A panel at the Battery Asset Management Summit UK & Ireland 2026 last week discussed BESS capex trends and strategies to manage it.

Oyster Renewable COO talks about India’s BESS growth, domestic manufacturing ambitions, supply chain resilience and challenges.

Hartek Power CEO discusses India’s BESS expansion, transmission infrastructure and strategies to reduce renewable energy curtailment.

In the wide-ranging conversation, Shaw starts off by describing the year-end rush as a perennial challenge for the battery energy storage system (BESS) sector in the US.

Four-hour battery storage is less expensive than open-cycle gas turbines in the 43 markets in which both technologies were modelled, according to a new report from market research firm Wood Mackenzie.

Around 20.4GWh of grid-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) came online globally last month, bringing the year-to-date (YTD) total to 208GWh.

From the Midwest to New York, local and state governments are introducing new zoning rules and restrictions on BESS and data centre projects.

Insufficient progress has been made towards the Energy Storage and Grids Pledge, endorsed by dozens of countries at COP29 two years ago.