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The first monthly global grid-scale BESS deployment figures for 2026 are in from Rho Motion, showing a year-on-year fall and China continuing to account for the majority of activity.
Another roundup of European BESS news, but this time around portfolios, partnerships, investments, financing, optimisation and tolling in France, Spain, Belgium, Denmark, Finland and Romania. Notable highlights are Grenergy’s 10-year BESS toll in Spain and Ingrid Capacity entering the French market.
A busy week of large-scale BESS projects news from the Eastern side of Europe, with projects reaching commissioning, final investment decision, technology procurement and acquisition, led by KNESS’ 2GWh partnership with Hithium in Ukraine.
The UK just saw its biggest year of grid-scale battery storage deployments, but planning barriers “threaten to stall momentum,” according to one expert.
A 582MWh battery storage project and a gigawatt-hour-scale thermal energy storage system are the latest big developments in the emerging Baltic region, north-eastern Europe.
Netherlands-based iron-air long-duration energy storage (LDES) startup Ore Energy has completed a grid-connected pilot of its 100-hour iron-air LDES system at EDF Lab les Renardières in France.
Carrie Xiao examines some notable recent partnerships and supply agreements for Chinese energy storage players in the Middle East, Europe, Africa and Australia.
A busy week of grid-scale BESS project news from Germany, with numerous development, project, optimisation and tolling partnerships announced.
Chinese-based OEM Sungrow will build a PV inverter and battery storage manufacturing facility in southwest Poland, its first outside Asia.
Lithium-ion companies have come out as the top-rated suppliers on a new long-duration energy storage (LDES) leaderboard, while CO2 Battery company Energy Dome is the highest non-lithium company.
