With Document No. 136 scrapping the mandatory energy storage allocation requirement for renewable energy and the rollout of policies governing new energy storage, China’s energy storage market is going through a period of dynamic change.

On 21 July, standalone BESS and solar-plus-storage each achieved new generation records in Western Australia’s SWIS.

The electricity regulator for Rajasthan, India, has approved the lowest tariff rate for a battery storage tender in the country so far.

Developers Acacia, Green Tower and Eren Industries have partnered to develop and build 500MW of standalone BESS in France.

Daiwa Energy & Infrastructure has bought a minority stake in large-scale BESS projects from independent power producer (IPP) Enfinity Global.

Spain’s Ministry of the Environment has formally launched its latest financial support scheme for energy storage, aiming to kickstart the deployment of 2.5-3.5GW of projects.

Atlas Renewable Energy has inaugurated a 200MW/800MWh BESS project in Chile, which it claimed is the ‘first large-scale standalone BESS’ in the country and the wider Latin American region.

National and regional agencies in India tendered for 9.5GW of utility-scale ESS in Q1 2025, more than two-thirds for standalone systems.

The Ministry of Energy of Bulgaria has selected 82 winning energy storage projects for a share of BGN 1.15 billion (€588 million) in financial support.

ACE Power has submitted a 2,000MWh BESS in Queensland to Australia’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act.