As BESS projects grow more complex, so does the question of what ‘purpose’ even means in a construction contract, writes contracts lawyer Suriya Ashok of Clyde & Co.

A battery storage system can meet every contracted performance guarantee and still leave its owner watching day-to-day output fall short of expectations.

A US court has upheld a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) plan to speed up the permitting process for connecting energy projects to the grid.

ESN Premium heard from executives at battery energy storage system (BESS) firms Rept and Fluence on the EU funding ban on Chinese inverters in solar and BESS projects.

Update 28 April 2026: Following publication of this story, Hydrostor reached out to clarify some of the conditions detailed below and provided a statement.

Intellectual property litigation attorney Isaku Begert of Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP looks at energy storage system patent risks and the steps that can be taken to mitigate them.

Year in Review series perspectives, from FEOC to data centres, from Vaughn Morrison, partner at US law firm Troutman Pepper Locke.

A jury has found in favour of Consumers Energy and DTE Energy in their case against Toshiba for “defective” work to upgrade a pumped hydro facility.

On 4 September, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), along with multiple other law enforcement organisations, raided Hyundai Motor and LG Energy Solution’s electric vehicle (EV) battery cell plant in Ellabell, Georgia, US.

With the final deadline for this year’s California legislative session having passed, now is a good time to analyse the outcomes of several bills that were first introduced earlier this year pertaining to BESS.