BESS has huge potential to be deployed alongside AI data centres, but how are industry players positioning themselves to capture this opportunity?

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said that large-scale data centres will be legally required to put at least as much energy into the grid as they draw from it, and that this supply must be renewable energy.

Australia’s CSIRO has revised pumped hydro storage costs upward in the final version of its annual GenCost electricity cost report.

Arash Shojaie of QIC Infrastructure outlines how Queensland’s North West Energy Fund will approach cost reduction, technology selection and more.

New Zealand state-owned energy company from a Fast-track Approvals Panel to access contingent hydro storage at Lake Pūkaki in New Zealand.

EDP and SRP complete 200MW/800MWh Arizona BESS, Pathway Power closes $150m facility, and B2U secures Waymo supply deal for second-life EV batteries in grid storage.

Owner-operator Eco Stor has secured a long-term toll with utility Next Kraftwerke for its 300MW/700MWh project in Förderstedt, Germany, one of the largest being built in the country.

Queensland’s growing battery energy storage system (BESS) fleet set new instantaneous records for both the renewables-plus-storage (RES) share of consumption and the battery storage share of consumption on 31 May 2026.

While Germany is often described as the ‘hottest’ energy storage market in Europe, growing uncertainty on multiple policy and regulatory topics has led to a ‘cooling’ of investor interest.

Utility-scale battery storage systems in Western Australia supplied 37.2% of peak demand on 9 May, marking one of the highest battery storage penetration levels recorded in an isolated grid globally.