Europe breaking battery storage deployment records, but more still needs to be done to accelerate uptake, according to SolarPower Europe.

We caught up with the president of OCI Energy, a developer-operator with a 4-hour BESS in Texas, about the longer duration, long-term project ownership and why the current US-China tariffs create a huge challenge for procurement.

Renewable energy developer ACE Power has seen its 3.6GWh Nebo BESS in Queensland waved through the EPBC Act.

The Labor Party, led by Anthony Albanese, has secured a landslide victory in the 2025 Australian federal election.

We hear from industry sources about the upcoming Real-Time Co-Optimization Plus Batteries (RTC+B) market changes in ERCOT, Texas, and why they represent a fundamental shift in how BESS will operate in one of the world’s largest and most lucrative energy storage markets.

With Riverhead in Suffolk County, New York, dropping plans for a moratorium, Nala Renewables has advanced a standalone BESS proposal.

Clean energy trade body ACP announced a commitment on behalf of the US energy storage industry to invest US$100 billion in building and buying American-made grid batteries.

UK power generation firm Drax will not bid its Cruachan II pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) project into the LDES cap and floor scheme, saying that costs have risen while ‘recoverability of capital’ is unclear.

Yarra Energy Foundation has secured funding to install three new community batteries in and around Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

AEMO has revealed that, as of March 2025, the pipeline of new standalone BESS in the NEM has increased by 86% year-on-year (YoY).