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).

NYSERDA has launched a programme to incentivise residential and retail energy storage in the state, offering a total of US$775 million for energy storage projects.

Grid limitations can impact the business case for battery storage assets for a number of reasons, writes Amira Belazougui of Clean Horizon.

Leading BESS owner-operators in the UK have signalled their opposition to the government’s cap and floor support scheme for long-duration energy storage (LDES) in an open letter. We spoke to one its signatories James Basden, founder of Zenobē, about why.

Investor NTR has picked system integrator Fluence for a 55MW/110MWh BESS project in Finland, with grid forming capabilities.

A total of 26 battery energy storage projects in Japan have been selected for contracts through the Long-Term Decarbonisation Power Source Auction (LTDA) for 2024.

The commercial and industrial (C&I) energy storage market is experiencing rapid growth as industries worldwide focus on decarbonisation and energy efficiency.

Atlas Renewable Energy has inaugurated a 200MW/800MWh BESS project in Chile, which it claimed is the ‘first large-scale standalone BESS’ in the country and the wider Latin American region.

National and regional agencies in India tendered for 9.5GW of utility-scale ESS in Q1 2025, more than two-thirds for standalone systems.

Australia’s MGA Thermal has completed what it claims is the world’s first industrial steam heat energy storage demonstrator project.