We caught up with the CEO of owner-operator BW ESS, Erik Strømsø, about the firm’s next deployment plans, tolling trends, procurement and LDES, with its 11.5-hour Bannaby BESS in Australia further proof of lithium-ion’s long-duration potential.

Iron-sodium battery manufacturer Inlyte Energy and data centre operator NTS Colocation are partnering to deploy 2MW of iron-sodium battery capacity by 2028.

Energy Storage Summit 2026 finished yesterday, having brought the industry together for its first major meeting of the year.

Trina Storage, the BESS arm of Trinasolar, has made a commitment to invest in Gore Street Capital’s new EU-focused private BESS fund.

Energy storage developer and subsidiary of Canadian Solar, Recurrent Energy, has sold its 200MWh Fort Duncan battery energy storage system (BESS) project, located in Texas, US, to developer Hunt Energy Network.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has closed a US$26.5 billion loan package to two wholly owned subsidiaries of utility Southern Company, in Georgia and Alabama, US.

Utility Xcel Energy will install 30GWh of US startup Form Energy’s iron-air batteries at a data centre in Pine Island, Minnesota, belonging to tech giant Google.

MGA Thermal has secured AU$3.25 million in funding from ARENA to conduct up to five FEED studies for its thermal energy storage technology.

Germany’s energy storage market growth will be hampered by a regulatory decision to potentially charge utility-scale project operators fees for use of the grid, Energy-Storage.news has heard.

In this Energy-Storage.news roundup, FlexGen updates its EMS, LandGate launches a BESS site selection tool, ON.energy and Shoals target AI data centres, and Sunrun has a successful season of dispatching energy with PG&E.