UK grid-scale batteries are being skipped at a lower rate than before in Great Britain’s balancing market, following efforts to improve how BESS assets are dispatched by NESO’s control room. Skip rates for all technologies were 9% lower across January…
Wider adoption of 587Ah battery cells is likely to reduce BESS costs despite a sharp increase in lithium carbonate prices, according to Intertek CEA’s first-quarter storage price forecast. Cell-level energy density gains from the 587Ah format are modest on their…
A research team from Spain’s CIRCE Technology Center has found that there is no single optimal energy management strategy for PV-powered irrigation systems. The scientists explained that the best configuration depends on whether the main objective is to maximize energy…
German lender UmweltBank has provided financing for an 11 MW/22 MWh standalone battery energy storage system (BESS( in Halle (Saale), Germany, using a financing structure based entirely on merchant market revenues. The project, developed with CCE, was financed without floor-price…
Spain’s Ministry for the Ecological Transition has approved a competitive grid access auction for the Beariz 400 kV transmission node in Galicia, reserving all newly available capacity for future renewable energy and energy storage projects. The resolution, published in Spain’s…
The levelized cost of energy (LCOE) for utility-scale solar and storage has increased slightly year on year due to higher capital costs, interest rates, tariffs, and ongoing supply chain pressures, according to the “2026 Levelized Cost of Energy Report” by…
AmpereHour Energy has inaugurated a BESS manufacturing and integration facility in Pune, India, with a planned annual manufacturing capacity of 5 GWh. The company said the facility marks its evolution from a BESS technology integrator to a manufacturer combining containerized…
BYD Energy Storage has agreed to supply 11.275 GWh of battery storage to Masdar for part of an Abu Dhabi project to deliver RTC renewable power from solar generation and battery storage. Masdar and Emirates Water and Electricity Co. (EWEC)…
Windey Energy plans to invest BRL 100 million over the next five years to set up a BESS factory in Brazil, marking the company’s first dedicated BESS manufacturing facility outside China. According to the company and the Bahia state government,…
SunWiz said a combined 1.07 GWh of small-scale battery energy storage was registered across Australia in June 2026, down 28.3% on the 1.51 GWh of capacity installed in May, as the market recalibrates following changes introduced to the federal government’s cheaper…