Developer Avantus has closed a financing package of over US$300 million for the 100MWac/130MWdc solar, 400MWh BESS Kitt Solar and Energy Storage Project in Pinal County, Arizona, US.

Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks with Claire McConnell, VP business development for Redwood Materials’ energy storage business, Redwood Energy, about its recent backing from Google and Nvidia, and what it has planned next.

From Texas, US, Bimergen Energy has acquired eight BESS projects totalling 79.2MW. Meanwhile, Habitat Energy announced its first US co-located solar-plus-storage partnership with Birch Creek.

Large-scale BESS deployments in Romania are benefiting from country-specific drivers, helping Romania emerge as a busy grid-scale market.

In this second part of our interview with Wood Mackenzie energy storage analysts, we look at risk factors and mitigation across the European and US markets.

Jeff Monday of Fluence believes Australia can transform its data centre boom from a grid constraint into a growth opportunity using BESS.

Fluence has delivered all battery enclosures for the 600MWh Bulabul Battery storage project in New South Wales ahead of schedule.

We heard from Danske Commodities’ principal originator Rimshah Javed at the Energy Storage Summit 2026, to discuss trends in BESS offtake, optimisation, FCAs in Germany and the Danish market. The latter has taken off in the past year.

Utility-scale battery storage developer Jupiter Power’s 700MW/2,800MWh Trimount battery energy storage system (BESS) in Everett, Massachusetts, US, has been approved by state officials.

ESN Premium takes advantage of an opportunity to compare Europe and US energy storage markets with Wood Mackenzie energy storage analysts.