Essential Energy, a state-owned electricity infrastructure company, has switched on three community batteries in the New South Wales towns of Maloneys Beach, Leeton and Goulburn in Australia.

Germany is currently the “hottest market in Europe today from a development perspective,” according to battery storage developer-investor BW ESS.

Energy storage developer and system integrator Energy Vault has been tapped by Victoria’s State Electricity Commission (SEC) to deliver a 100MW/200MWh government-owned battery energy storage system (BESS) in Australia.

Australian energy major AGL Energy disclosed in its half-year results that it intends to make a final investment decision (FID) over the next 18 months for 1.4GW of utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS).

The energy storage market in Italy has unique characteristics that mean more risk-averse investment funds will be able to enter, but upcoming auctions could be very competitive, driving down clearing prices, a director at consultancy Timera Energy said.

The government of Cyprus has published guidelines for a scheme to support the deployment of approximately 150MW/350MWh of energy storage.  

Renewable energy developers and IPPs discussed the growing attractiveness of co-locating storage and solar at Solar Finance & Investment Europe (SFIE) 2025 this week.

ESN Premium hears from independent power producer (IPP) Econergy about its expansion from solar into BESS across Europe.

William Derasmo, partner at Troutman Pepper Locke, on the hyperscale data centre boom and how grid-scale storage could play a key role.

Although last year saw a dip in installations and projects submitted for planning, the BESS market in the UK continues to steam ahead with over 8GWh online and nearly 20GWh being built.