The Western Australia government is funding three businesses to support five projects that will advance the development and production of a range of battery technologies and components for residential, commercial, industrial, and defense applications. The first-round allocation from the state…
UNIGRID said it has completed Hyundai Motor Group’s ZER01NE Accelerator program, an initiative the companies said began in 2025 to identify non-flammable BESS technologies for high-safety energy infrastructure. The US battery developer’s proprietary sodium chromium oxide (NCO) chemistry was selected…
Stationary battery energy storage systems (BESS) have multiple vectors for technology improvements, and battery management systems may be set to make a step-change improvement. Standard battery management systems (BMS) monitor cells in a passive way, monitoring voltages and grading them…
A total 191 MW of battery capacity was registered in Denmark between the third quarter of last year (Q3 2025) and second quarter of this year (Q2 2026), according to figures from the Danish Energy Agency (Energistyrelsen). The total accounts…
ARENA, the renewable energy funding agency of Australia, said it has installed the 100th community battery under its Community Batteries Funding Initiative. The program forms part of the Australian federal government’s AUD 200 million Community Batteries for Household Solar measure,…
The European Commission approved, under EU state aid rules, Germany’s capacity mechanism under the StromVKG, which is due to take effect in 2031. The legislation also provides for two additional tenders this year, each covering 4.5 GW of capacity, which…
French energy company EDF has signed two long-term battery optimization agreements with Trinasolar International Solution Business Unit (ISBU), securing the operation of a pair of new grid-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) in England and Scotland. The deal covers 179.8…
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…