BESS and flexible generation provider Statera Energy has secured £235 million (US$309 million) in debt financing for its 680MW/1,360MWh Carrington BESS project in Manchester, UK.

State-backed power firm PPC Renewables has launched construction on its a large-scale BESS in Greece, for which Trina Storage will supply the energy storage technology.

Nearly 70% of the 4.5GW/12.7GWh of grid-scale BESS that came online across the globe last month was in China.

Two Finland BESS project announcements, with Exilion ordering grid-forming energy storage technology from Merus Power and Nala Renewables ordering units from Sungrow for 2-hour systems.

The low-carbon subsidiary of German energy company LEAG is constructing Europe’s largest single-site battery storage project, in partnership with Fluence.

BESS platform Eco Stor has marked the start of construction on a 300MW/700MWh BESS project in Germany, just days after RWE did the same.

The government of Spain has chosen the 143 energy storage projects that will receive capex support from an EU-backed scheme, totalling nearly 9GWh of capacity.

A double header of Baltic BESS news, with financing secured for two large-scale BESS projects in Estonia and Lithuania’s capex support scheme oversubscribed by 2x.

From August 2026, energy storage projects in France will benefit from changes to grid tariffs designed to encourage them to support the grid at specific times of the day.

Lithium-ion OEM Envision Energy has launched its latest grid-scale BESS solution, a 10-foot modular DC block which can be combined into configurations of 12MWh or more.