Tesla’s energy storage business deployed 13.7GWh in Q3 2026, its second-highest quarterly figure to date, but saw a 16% year-on-year decline in revenues for the division.

Energy storage owner-operator Nightpeak Energy has reached financial close and commercial operation on its 150MW/300MWh Bocanova 2 battery storage project in Brazoria County, Southeast Texas.

Having just begun construction on a 2.8GWh BESS in Belgium, Giga Storage has progressed its 1.4GWh project in Germany to the ready-to-build stage.

Residential battery energy storage systems (BESS) across California discharged more than 580MW of peak power to the state’s grid on the evening of 9 September 2026 via a Tesla-Sunrun VPP.

On 26 August, US President Donald Trump banned the import of inverters, transformers and other power equipment citing a potential risk to US grid security, via emergency executive order (EO).

Heron Power and NeoVolta have secured significant credit facilities, while Carina Energy has launched a FEOC compliance support practice to help developers navigate increasingly complex regulatory requirements.

Utility Black Hills Energy has announced it will move forward with the construction of a 50MW/200MWh energy storage facility at its Pueblo Airport Generating Station (PAGS) in Colorado, US.

Tech giant Google, Tesla, utility Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), and distributed energy resource (DER)-focused company Sunrun are launching a new virtual power plant (VPP) in California, US.

Tesla was one of the pioneers of the grid-scale battery storage market, but has faced increasing competition in the past few years. In this article we look under the hood of its latest grid-scale BESS product, the Megapack 3. 

Denmark-headquartered multinational energy company Ørsted has put its 250MW/500MWh Old 300 energy storage project in Needville, Texas, US into operation.