Publicly owned California utility Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) and developer D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI) have executed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) for a 640MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in California.

Commissioning of the 1.6GWh Melbourne Renewable Energy Hub (MREH) battery energy storage system (BESS) in Victoria, Australia, is set to begin.

We caught up with the CEO of Bulgaria-based International Power Supply (IPS) to discuss its claimed first mass-scale cell-to-system BESS manufacturing facility in Europe and its ultra-high density 20-foot product.

Home battery systems company Haven Energy and California utility Clean Energy Alliance (CEA)  have partnered to provide homeowners in the state with battery energy storage systems (BESS) at no purchase or installation cost.

Q2 2025 saw the sharpest jump in battery energy storage system (BESS) prices since 2021, according to procurement platform Anza Renewables’ Q2 US energy storage pricing insights report.

Huawei Digital Power has successfully commissioned what it claims is Cambodia’s first grid-forming battery energy storage system (BESS) certified by TÜV SÜD.

Aslan Energy Capital will develop a 40MW data centre with a 120MWh BESS in a deal with Indonesia’s Jakarta Industrial Estate Pulogadung.

The question of where the cells in a BESS are from ties in to safety, performance, design and, increasingly, potential tariffs.

In Texas, two companies, Energy Vault, recognised for its gravity energy storage technology, and Agilitas, known for smaller-scale projects in the Northeastern US, have put utility-scale energy storage projects in the state into operation.

In this blog, ESN Premium speaks with Fluence’s Rob Hills and Sam Markham about hybrid assets and trends in Australia’s NEM.