A second-round auction in the UK for grid stability services, including inertia, concluded without any wins for grid-forming battery energy storage system (BESS) projects.
Allianz GI, Luxcara and Return have acquired BESS projects and portfolios in Germany, Finland and Spain; Low Carbon, OX2, Cero Generation and Revera have taken FIDs on projects in Poland, Finland and the UK; and NHOA Energy has received a 600MWh order in Italy. All in all, the projects total at least 3.7GWh of capacity.
Winter Storms cause major disruptions, but Texas’s fleet of battery storage plays an increasing role in grid resilience, writes Randolph Mann, CEO of esVolta.
Experts at the ongoing Energy Storage Summit 2026 have cautioned against treating co-located storage as a “silver bullet” to prop up commercially underperforming solar assets.
In an interview with Energy-Storage.news Premium, Jay Jayasuriya, Principal at Sendero Consulting, argues that AI data centres are “convenient scapegoats” for grid failures