Two Victorian battery storage projects have reached new construction and commissioning milestones this week, both connecting to the National Electricity Market (NEM) in Australia.

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.

GridStor, a US-based developer and operator of grid-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) has closed a US$220 million financing agreement for the 100MW/400MWh White Tank project in Arizona, US.

Compressed air energy storage (CAES) holds much promise for large-scale, LDES, but has struggled to get off the ground outside of China.

Australia’s Victoria mandates new data centres match demand with own renewable energy and battery storage under new rules.

Residential battery energy storage systems (BESS) across California discharged more than 580MW of peak power to the state’s grid on the evening of 9 September 2026 via a Tesla-Sunrun VPP.

Utility PG&E has selected six new California microgrid projects for a US$30 million investment, while Massachusetts’ Department of Energy Resources is awarding US$40 million across 36 BESS projects.

RWE has taken a final investment decision (FID) on 400MW/1.1GWh BESS in the Netherlands with construction to start in due course, while Giga Storage has started building its 2.8GWh Green Turtle project in Belgium.

Nova Scotia Power has inaugurated three 50MW/200MWh battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Bridgewater, Waverley and White Rock, now Atlantic Canada’s largest battery storage facilities.

Covenergo and Delta Capacity have begun construction on AKKU One, a standalone 125MW/300MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Lapinlahti, Finland, with commissioning targeted for the fourth quarter of 2027.