The managing director of Bluestar Energy Capital’s European BESS platform Noveria Energy gave a Q&A to Energy-Storage.news ahead of the Energy Storage Summit 2026 in London next month.

2025 saw genuinely large-scale BESS projects start construction in Germany, strengthening confidence among stakeholders. But significant challenges remain around grid connection, connection agreements and access to revenue streams, an operator said.

H.I.G. Capital-backed energy platform, Greenflash Infrastructure, has Safe Harboured more than 10GWh of lithium-ion (Li-ion) energy storage capacity.

Australia-based battery technology firm Altech Batteries has received a binding conditional funding approval for a sodium-chloride solid-state battery manufacturing facility in Germany.

Four projects have been selected in Peninsular Malaysia’s first programme to build large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) facilities.

Three battery energy storage system (BESS) developments across Australia have been submitted to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act, representing a combined capacity of 1,220MWh.

Western Australia has launched the fourth round of its Clean Energy Innovation Grants programme, prioritising long-duration energy storage.

The Board of Supervisors (BoS) for Arizona’s Pinal County has given the go-ahead to developer and IPP esVolta to construct 3.2GWh BESS within its unincorporated territory, and two utilities are in talks to procure some of its capacity.

The Australian Energy Regulator (AER) has confirmed that 244 community battery energy storage systems (BESS) are now connected to the country’s distribution networks.

In a surprising move, the North American development arm of Engie has asked the California Energy Commission (CEC) to pause the review of its Compass Energy Storage project destined for Orange County, in order to assess alternative development sites.