Australia’s BESS market evolves from physical tolls to commoditised contracts as spreads compress & investor return expectations rise to 14%.

Casey Keller, founding partner at Caerus Commodities, shares critical lessons from optimising battery storage, ahead of the 2026 US Battery Asset Management Summit taking place in California on 15-16 September.

This year has seen a shift in the financing environment for merchant BESS projects in Germany for the worse.

Japanese utility Tokyo Gas has entered into a long-term offtake agreement for a 49.7MW/202.1MWh battery storage project in Fukushima Prefecture.

With the Energy Storage Awards 2026 entry deadline less than two months away, we speak to four judges to hear what they are looking for from successful entrants.

Delta Capacity has brought online the Nordic region’s biggest project to date and has acquired another project that would be almost twice the size.

Germany’s policymakers, regulators and energy storage industry must carefully consider the issues of grid connections and grid fees, writes Thomas Antonioli of developer Terra One.

After a quiet period, M&A in the UK’s large-scale BESS market has picked up with transactions from CIP, Fidra Energy, Elements Green, Gresham House and Eelpower in the past fortnight.

The California Energy Commission (CEC) has approved a 400MW/3,200MWh grid-scale battery storage project through the state planning agency’s Opt-In Certification Program.

ESN Premium examines likely reasons why owner SK Innovation E&S is seeking financing options for Key Capture Energy (KCE), including a potential sale.