We’re back with another BESS Industry Buzz after a short period off, tracking interesting hot takes and analysis from across the energy storage industry.

Elliot Squire, senior asset manager for Varco Energy, discusses current and future trends in battery storage.

Liam Critchley with an ESN Premium deep dive into availability, one of the most-discussed metrics in battery storage performance.

Three companies across the BESS value chain, including PowerUp, describe how battery analytics has become a decision layer that the whole ecosystem acts upon.

DNV has independently verified that Fluence’s global fleet of battery energy storage systems (BESS) achieved 98.7% MW-weighted availability.

BESS performance guarantees are essential and ubiquitous, yet can be challenging to navigate, writes Intertek CEA senior energy storage engineer Yilin Huang.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has invested €24 million (US$28 million) in cloud-based battery data analytics provider TWAICE.

Energy storage is expected to play a significant role in enabling the global data centre build-out, although the commercial and financing models developers will use are evolving, Energy-Storage.news has learned.

Battery storage is the technology best suited to handling the power fluctuations that AI training loads can create at data centres, ESN Premium has heard.

India’s first commercial regulated utility-scale battery storage project has gone into operation, and a new partnership claims it will establish local manufacturing in the country this year.