Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea multi-utility project has entered full commercial operation, completing a large-scale renewable-powered off-grid utility system designed to supply an entire tourism destination and its supporting infrastructure. SEPCOIII, a PowerChina subsidiary and the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC)…
French consultancy Clean Horizon has updated its battery profitability index, an indicator of potential revenues, providing monthly estimates for potential BESS markets across Europe based on two-hour systems. The latest analysis highlights the growing dependence of BESS profitability on the…
Hydrostor has received grid connection approval for its “near-shovel ready” Silver City Energy Storage Centre project being developed in Broken Hill, New South Wales. The project, the first of its kind in Australia, features a 200 MW underground CAES facility…
Germany’s Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) has opened a consultation on the “Electricity and Gas/Hydrogen Scenario Framework 2027-2040/45” with the publication of the transmission system operators’ plans. Associations and organizations have until Sept. 28 to submit their assessments. The transmission system…
A report from SEIA and Benchmark Mineral Intelligence has revealed that US installed energy storage capacity grew by 20.2 GWh in the second quarter of 2026, representing 6.7 GW of continuous power output capacity. The additions, detailed in the Q3…
China has begun collecting consumption tax on lithium-ion batteries from Sept. 1, ending an exemption that had been in place for more than a decade and adding a new cost component for domestic battery energy storage products. The measure is…
HyperStrong has broken ground on the GigaBattery Boxberg 400, a 400 MW GWh battery energy storage system in Saxony, Germany, acting as turnkey contractor for project owner LEAG Clean Power. The facility is being built on a six-hectare remediated site…
Ontario’s position in the grid-scale energy storage sector is one of the fastest-scaling in the world, and this activity has prompted another independent developer to aim to join in on the province’s competitive capacity contracts. Toronto-based PowerBank Corporation, known primarily…
A 750 MWh standalone battery energy storage system (BESS) dubbed the Beltrán project, located in the Valparaiso region, has reached ready-to-build (RTB) status. The standalone system, situated close to the La Pólvora substation, is being developed by Korkia in partnership…
Engie Chile has announced the commercial operation date (COD) of BESS Libélula and BESS Los Loros, two battery energy storage systems located in the Metropolitan and Atacama regions, respectively, with a combined maximum gross power output of 251 MW. With…