Two US battery recycling companies, Redwood Materials, and Ascend Elements, are in less than optimal situations, with Redwood laying off 135 employees, and Ascend filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Bobwhite Energy Storage, an affiliate of independent power producer (IPP) Tenaska has signed a long-term energy storage agreement (ESA) with utility Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for a 225MW/900MWh project in East Tennessee, US.

Energy-storage.news Premium speaks with the new CEO of nickel-hydrogen battery company EnerVenue, Henning Rath, about the company’s goals for 2026 and beyond.

New Zealand generator-retailer Genesis Energy has reached Final Investment Decision (FID) on the second stage of its Huntly battery energy storage system (BESS).

In this US news roundup, Eos and Turbine-X, CPower and Vertiv, and Elevate Renewables highlight the ‘bring your own capacity’ model in data centre-focused announcements.

Energy storage and battery market experts speak with Energy-Storage.news about current and possible supply chain and downstream impacts of the US and Israel’s war on Iran.

Virginia, US Governor Abigail Spanberger has signed legislation authorising the state to target  a total of 20.78GW of energy storage capacity.

Amazon has announced nine new renewable energy PPAs in Australia totalling 430MW of capacity, eight of which include co-located BESS.

Fluence’s chief growth officer, Jeff Monday, and Australia strategy lead, Sam Markham, discuss hyperscale opportunities, grid-forming evolution, and the company’s high-density Smartstack deployment plans.

Industry leaders warned that “unfettered optimism” regarding battery degradation is hitting a wall of operational reality.