Brazil’s National Electric Energy Agency (Aneel) has registered the first request for authorization for an energy storage system classified as a closed-loop pumped-storage hydropower plant. The registration, formalized under Order No. 3,960/2026 and published on Oct. 21, concerns the 5.2…
Engie has started construction of its first co-located solar and battery storage project in France. The Buisson solar park is being developed on a former quarry site in Saint-Jean-Froidmentel, in the Centre-Val de Loire region. The project will cover 23…
Lithium demand from stationary storage is expected to slow sharply after two years of rapid growth, according to new analysis from Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, which also estimates the lithium industry will need the equivalent of 134 new mines to meet…
The European Commission has selected 12 projects under the manufacturing of clean technologies category of its 2025 Innovation Fund call, with the projects collectively seeking almost €895 million in grants. The portfolio includes new solar cell and module factories, battery…
Brazil’s Energy Research Office (EPE) has published the methodology it will use to calculate the Reference Marginal Cost (CMR), which will inform price caps for the country’s 2026 power capacity reserve auctions for battery energy storage systems (BESS). The technical…
China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has proposed revised rules for electricity spot markets, introducing explicit provisions allowing renewable energy projects and their on-site battery storage systems to participate in spot trading as joint bidding entities. The draft Basic…
Global offshore wind developer Ørsted has completed construction of its 300 MW / 600 MWh Iceni battery energy storage system (BESS) near Norwich, in Norfolk, England. It is its first large-scale BESS project in the UK. A construction start cememony…
Dominion Energy, the American utility headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, filed its 2026 integrated resource plan on October 15, updating its long-term energy roadmap. Under scrutiny is Dominion’s preferred plan, which models roughly 3.5 GW of BESS additions over the next…
Budderfly said it will make $500 million in project capital available to small and mid-sized US municipalities for solar, battery storage and other energy upgrades at no upfront cost, and plans to combine the sites into a 150 MW VPP.…
Brazil’s National Electric System Operator (ONS) has defined guidelines for validating computational models used in electrical studies of solar, wind and battery energy storage system (BESS) projects. The procedure sets criteria for checking whether simulations accurately represent real equipment behavior…