A panel at the Battery Asset Management Summit UK & Ireland 2026 last week discussed BESS capex trends and strategies to manage it.

The Illinois Power Agency (IPA) is seeking stakeholder feedback on its summer procurement of 600MW of energy storage projects in the US state, after falling short by 438MW.

Big names in the downstream battery storage market have signed up to join an initiative aimed at simplifying BESS procurement.  

We hear from the BESS lead at RWE Renewables Europe & Australia ahead of the Energy Storage Summit Germany 2026, discussing the major trends, challenges and opportunities in the country’s grid-scale storage market. 

Trade association Energy Storage Canada (ESC) has recommended establishing a Distributed Reliability Track for behind-the-meter (BTM) and distribution-connected energy storage in Ontario.

PJM has proposed a major overhaul of how it procures power capacity in response to surging data centre demand that has driven auction prices up more than 1,000% in two years and threatens to add US$70 per month to average household electricity bills by 2028.

Energy storage deployments in China saw significant year-over-year growth in 2025 as the market size effectively doubled.

Primergy director of engineering and Energy Storage Awards 2026 judge, Aaroh Kharaya, on key trends transforming the battery storage stack.

We caught up with Peter Kavanagh, CEO of BESS developer Harmony Energy, after it was acquired by Switzerland-headquartered power group Alpiq. 

The Maine, US Department of Energy Resources (DOER) announced plans for the state’s first competitive energy storage solicitation up to 360MW.