BESS asset management in the UK has moved beyond the rudimentary ‘project delivery and basic O&M’ approach, a speaker at the upcoming Battery Asset Management Summit UK & Ireland explained in a Q&A.

Community-owned public power utility Denton Municipal Electric (DME) has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Jupiter Power covering offtake from one of the developer-operator’s standalone BESS projects destined for Robertson County in Texas. 

The New South Wales Independent Planning Commission has approved ACEnergy’s 250MW/1,100MWh Yanco battery energy storage system in Australia.

H.I.G. Capital-backed energy platform, Greenflash Infrastructure, has closed a hybrid tax capital and debt financing for Project Soho, a 400MW/800MWh standalone battery storage project in Brazoria County, Texas.

GoldenPeaks Capital (GPC) and Huawei Polska have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) cooperation focusing on 500MWh grid-forming BESS in Europe.

Australia has announced the results of the fourth Capacity Investment Scheme tender, with 11.4GWh of solar-plus-storage contracts awarded.

South Australia is set to open a tender seeking 700MW of long-duration energy storage to bolster grid reliability.

Repurposing EV battery packs and modules into BESS obviously has environmental benefits, but challenges around pricing, performance and safety remain, panellists at an industry event in London said last week.

Some quick snapshots from the presentations and panels at Energy Storage Summit Asia 2025, taking place this week in Manila, Philippines.

US utility Xcel Energy has proposed to build out a 200MW battery storage network across Minnesota, US.